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Tongue firmly in cheek, Michel McQueen offers a suggestion on how to come up with a name for ABC's new Sunday magazine show, scheduled to debut opposite CBS

Tongue firmly in cheek, Michel McQueen offers a suggestion on how to come up with a name for ABC's new Sunday magazine show, scheduled to debut opposite CBS' "60 Minutes" early next year.
"They should have a contest," says McQueen, 33,recently hired away from the Wall Street Journal to be a Washington-basedreporter for the program, "and the winner can have dinner with [show anchor] ForrestSawyer ."
McQueen, who joined the Journal as a housingand urban affairs reporter in 1987 before becoming a White House correspondent the next year, says she wasn't looking for a new job.
"I did not have some overwhelming need to bein television," says McQueen, who turned down an offer two years ago tobecome CBS' No. 3 White House reporter. "But you don't often get a chancein an era of shrinking resources to create something." Not only that, "I'vealways worked at jobs where expectations were pretty much laid out. I didthe Washington Post [where she spent the first seven years of her careerafter graduating from Harvard in 1980] and worked my way through the system."
McQueen, raised in Brooklyn in a family of firefightersand police officers, jokes that she and her sister, Newsday reporter MariMcQueen , are considered "the black sheep" of the clan.
She says she's proud of her work at the Journal,although the long days at the White House weren't the "peak experience"of her life. "It's almost hard to talk about because you sound churlishin describing its drawbacks," she says. "It's a lot like Harvard, you getmore credit than you deserve just for being picked. I'm eager to do somethingwhere I'm not with 200 people every day of my life."
"The only reason to not [take the job] was fearof failure," she says, "and that's not a reason."