Think of the thrilling sequences you’ve seen in the great journalism films: Bob Woodward huddling with Deep Throat in the parking garage in "All The President's Men," for example, or Hildy Johnson hiding her key source, an escaped convict, in a rolltop newsroom desk in "His Girl Friday."
Most days, my first newspaper job looked nothing like that.
It was with The Citizen, a 200-year-old newspaper covering the largely rural area around Auburn, New York, halfway between Rochester and Syracuse. When I was hired there in 2010 straight out of journalism school, the metro desk had five reporters, each with a tightly defined beat. Mine was Cayuga County government.
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