How did Billy Wilder begin his career in journalism?

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Billy Wilder poses in a suit and hat, leaning against a streetlamp with a sign reading Sunset Blvd. in a promotional photo for the film Sunset Boulevard. — Billy Wilder Billy Wilder in a promotional photograph for *Sunset Boulevard* (1950), which he directed.

Billy Wilder began his journalism career in Vienna after dropping out of the University of Vienna, where he had been studying prelaw. He initially secured a position as a sports reporter for a local newspaper. His professional trajectory shifted in 1926 when he was recruited by a major paper in Berlin to cover the crime beat, an experience that later influenced his work as a filmmaker.1