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Aaron Lewis started at CBS News in 2002 as an intern for the weekend news and soon became a desk assistant during the beginning of the Iraq War. He spent a few years at CNN as a video assistant and returned to CBS last August as the network's pool coordinator. Along the way, he's had some interesting experiences -- including one anecdote about what it's like to crash a story at CNN. Literally.

What do you do at CBS News?

For certain news events, the five major networks (ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, and NBC) are either mandated or decide amongst ourselves to provide a single camera crew to shoot and feed back to all of us at the same time. These events are considered "pooled" events. My job is to represent CBS when it comes to coordinating logistics with other networks for these "pools."

What single issue should be covered more at CBS News?

When it comes down to it, nothing is more important to our viewers than their health. Everyone at least knows someone who's been affected by cancer, Alzheimer's, or heart disease. Progress is constantly being made on those and other diseases. I think viewers would welcome more stories about such progress.

Give us a great behind the scenes story.

After about a year working in CNN's video library - and a good amount of prodding - I'm given a chance one day to help produce live shots for CNN International and Headline News. Of course, I was excited to do something other than log and archive video all day, and I wanted to get more opportunities like that, so I didn't want to screw up. Anyway, the producer I'm working with asks me to track down video and get it cut for air in less than 10 minutes. So I take off through the newsroom and after about three steps, I trip over a random incline in the floor and crash to the ground with a tremendously loud THUD. The newsroom goes dead silent and everyone just stares at me for several seconds. Then laughter. Even the interns had their fill. I was OK, but needless to say, I didn't make the best impression. It took another couple months before I got a shot in the newsroom again.

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What’s it like to be the Washington network pool coordinator? What is this “pool” situation all about anyway? Aaron Lewis, pool coordinator at CBS News in Washington, will tell you all about it this week -- he’ll answer 10 of the standard questions everyone gets, and one tailored just for him. Or he might answer one from you. So send in your questions or post them in comments, Aaron will post his answers on Thursday.

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