Jodi Kantor
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And so I was lucky enough to get a job as an editorial assistant at Slate Magazine.
Frank Forr, the guy I mentioned.
So he had worked there the year before.
So think of Slate now, but rewind to 1998.
It is owned by Microsoft.
It is edited by Michael Kinsley, this, like,
incredible figure in journalism.
There's nobody like him on the scene.
Now think of somebody impossibly witty, inventive, bold, skeptical of power.
And he was starting this new magazine to explore what could be done with journalism on the internet.
So I was lucky enough to become an editorial assistant, which, you know, I was like hired to, you know, do the floors and windows, like to do very, very basic tasks.
But Slate was an amazing place to start.
There was a lot of opportunity for young people and also a
We got to witness everything that happened.
There were three different offices, so we communicated by this magic new medium of email.