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Who Jake Tapper
New gig Anchor, chief Washington, D.C., correspondent, CNN
Old gig Senior national political correspondent, ABC News
Twitter @jaketapper
Age 45
I know being a beat reporter is a lot of fun—do you miss any of that now that you’re an anchor?
Well, you get to do the big interviews, which is fun—that’s a big bonus of being an anchor. You also get to control what you’re covering. And there might be something I want to cover—someone who isn’t a big name, necessarily, whom I really want to cover, and I can.
So what does your mandate look like now that you’re in charge? What’s your focus?
We’ve covered a lot of stories having to do with veterans; we’ve covered a lot of stories to do with mental health in the wake of Newtown.
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