“[H]er new role is punishing — too many candidates,
too few reporters, not enough hours in the day. But she’s having too much fun
to dwell on the downsides.
“Even those times when you’re grumpy and have been
on the road all day and nothing is going right, you still just pinch yourself
and say, ‘Wow, they pay me to do this,’ she says. ‘As some of our senior
reporters have told me, it’s like sitting in the front row of history.’”
—Brianne
Pfannenstiel, chief politics reporter, The
Des Moines Register, in Tim Alberta’s “Inside the Shrinking Newsroom of the Newspaper that Shapes
the Primaries,” POLITICO, April 26, 2019.
• Editorial Comment: History makes for a good story.
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