How Becker Did It

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From E&P:

“It was kind of crazy,” said Becker, a 17-year reporter who spent seven years at the Post before moving to the Times late last month. “They just happened to run on the same day.”

The Times’ story, the paper’s hard-hitting report on Rupert Murdoch, featured Becker co-bylined with three other writers. At the Post, meanwhile, Becker was positioned on the front page with co-writer Barton Gellman in the second story of a four-part series on Vice President Richard Cheney.

The coincidence dates back to last year when Becker was one of several scribes assigned to work on the Cheney series at the Post. As that reporting was ending in recent weeks, Becker was offered a job with the Times, where her husband, Serge Kovaleski, a former Post staffer, now works.

“When the Times offer came, I finished what I was working on and when I came here, I kind of plunged into [Murdoch reporting],” she said, noting that the Murdoch story was in the works for about three weeks. “It is just a strange circumstance.”

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