In Chapter 7 of 9 of his 2009 Capture Your Flag interview with host Erik Michielsen, reporter and journalist Yoav Gonen finds joy in the assortment of experiences and people he meets writing news. He carries this passion for exploring to travel the world in his personal life, visiting cultures dissimilar from the United States and embracing their respective, different ways of life. Gonen is an education reporter for the New York Post newspaper in New York City. He earned a masters in journalism from NYU and a BA in English from the University of Michigan.