Hotline Profiles Lawrence

From their Friday Feature:

Jill Lawrence is the nat’l political corr. for USA Today. She also co-authors the paper’s “On Politics” blog. She was a columnist for the AP and a free-lance magazine and newspaper writer before joining the newspaper in July 1996. But today she’s our Friday Feature:

What’s your most embarrassing on-the-job moment? (Or as embarrassing as you’d like to reveal?)

One that ranks near the top was when I accidentally dropped my laptop off the top level of a camera stand. It was around midnight, the last event of the day in the last week of the Kerry campaign. That was the end of that computer.
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What’s your favorite political book and why

“The Feminine Mystique,” by Betty Friedan. It helped unlock possibilities for half the population, and is probably the reason I am able to have a job as a political reporter.

What is your biggest weakness (and not your job interview biggest weakness)?

I am uncomfortable making speeches. Give me a good Q-and-A any time.

Read the rest here.

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