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Episode 150: Margaret Sullivan

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How to Get a Job as a Journalist

John Sutter had been editor of the Buffalo News for 13 years. In 2012, he was hired by the Washington Post to write a weekly column. He says he campaigned for the job and wrote an 800-word memo about it. But after two weeks of nothingness, "I thought, oh, maybe I'm not going to get this"

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