Stuart Watson had been sober for more than 21 years when he got fired from his job as one of Charlotte’s boldest and most theatrical television reporters in January 2015. He’d spent more than a decade here exposing fraud and corruption with banger stories that led to change.
Now he was 55 years old, walking toward WCNC’s exit in a daze, and being asked to turn over his ID and key card.
“They literally took away my identity,” Watson told me last month, 10 years after his January 9, 2015, dismissal. “I had invested my entire identity in my title.”…