>> My favorite part of my job is being able to answer the questions that probably come to all
of us when we're reading the news on a given day.
I get my story ideas from a lot of different sources, but usually, it's something that comes
in my inbox, and I think that's, you know, that's curious and what's fortune,
why I feel fortunate about my job is that I can call people up.
I can call up the experts and the government officials
and I can get some insight as to why something's happening.
The hardest part about being a journalist right now, I this, in general is that we don't know
where the industry's going, and so that means it's hard
to identify the best employers and the best jobs.
You know, so some of the tried-and-true institutions that have been
around for a long time that you would've thought as a dream employer 20 years ago,
they may not be around or they may go through a massive overhaul.
I think of The American Prospect and The New Republic as examples of places
that are really changing rapidly right now and redefining their mission in the style
of the stories, the size of their staffs, and meanwhile, there are new publications popping
up like Fox or 538, and so, you have to be pretty, pretty,
proactive about defining what you want in a career.