>> My name is J.B. Wogan.
I'm a staff writer at Governing Magazine, and I write about state
and local government around the country.
I don't really have a typical day.
I have a couple different kinds of days.
One, when I'm working on a big magazine feature, I'll call maybe 20 people over the course
of a two-week span, I'm just trying to dig down deep into a story.
I'll sometimes go on site visits, and then there's the, you know,
news that's occurred on a single day.
I'll go to a speech or a conference, and then, that afternoon, I have to turn around a story
that will publish that afternoon.
So Governing Magazine goes out to about 85,000 subscribers.
All of our readers are practitioners in state and local government.
So people in mayors' offices, governors' offices, state legislators,
account executives, a lot of policy analysts.
So most of my reporting occurs here in DC, by phone, at my desk, but a few times a year,
I do to go on site visits for big magazine features and shorter stories
for the print edition, and I also write shorter web stories.
The length of the stories can vary a bit,
so the magazine features are two to three thousand word.
The web stories tend be somewhere between 500 and 1,000 words.