The Transformation Has Occurred

I had my first journalist moment yesterday. As I was heading back from an interview that I conducted at the convention center downtown, having gone two hours and $10 out of my way to speak with a chemist for 20 minutes (someone I easily could have spoken with just over the phone), the day before two major work assignments and an unrelated school paper were due, I realized that I have finally crossed over to thinking like a journalist. There is no explaining the value of a face-to-face interview versus any other type of communication.

Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Jane Cochran), late 1880s
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