The Importance of Independence in Journalism

I spend most of my career as a reporter. I do try to carve out some time every year to really make sure I'm stepping back because otherwise we all know like Email is not our jobs, but slack can easily become our jobs. You recently wrote an exhaustive piece in the clummy Adjournals Exhausting Exhaustive Chose my words for for a reason and I really thought it was terrific Would did it run at about 12,000 words something like that a little more than that Yeah, the longest thing I've ever written is that right?Yeah It's actually the word my great grandfather Gravitated towards describing his vision for the times and it's the word he uses twice