@Nataliekitro @dvdwyer SAVE EVERYTHING!!
I have strong feelings about this. Let me explain.
Soon after I moved to London in 2010, my girlfriend (now wife) forced me to throw out years worth of junk – including dozens of ancient notebooks, dating back to when I started in journalism in 2001....
I have strong feelings about this. Let me explain.
Soon after I moved to London in 2010, my girlfriend (now wife) forced me to throw out years worth of junk – including dozens of ancient notebooks, dating back to when I started in journalism in 2001....
@Nataliekitro @dvdwyer I'd kept them in chronological order. I could look up anything I'd ever reported on – coded in my own special shorthand.
Some of my earliest notebooks included interviews I'd done with congressmen I was covering for local papers in Wisconsin and Ohio....
Some of my earliest notebooks included interviews I'd done with congressmen I was covering for local papers in Wisconsin and Ohio....
@Nataliekitro @dvdwyer But I grudgingly acquiesced to my girlfriend's demands.
Less than two years later, Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan to be his White House running mate. I had spent a few years regularly interviewing Ryan back in 2001-03.
But my notes were gone. It was an awful feeling.
Less than two years later, Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan to be his White House running mate. I had spent a few years regularly interviewing Ryan back in 2001-03.
But my notes were gone. It was an awful feeling.
@Nataliekitro @dvdwyer The pattern repeated last year when Tim Ryan (Ohio congressman) briefly ran for president. I'd covered Ryan's first congressional race, attended his swearing-in, gotten to know him, as I wrote for the Youngstown Vindicator.
But all my notes were gone.
But all my notes were gone.
@Nataliekitro @dvdwyer Not making that mistake again. I have big boxes of my notebooks, organized by date, at home and work.
(Sorry. Do you regret asking?)
(Sorry. Do you regret asking?)
