The Risks and Rewards of DC Gossip Reporting

wpoIn a piece published today in The Washington Post’s Opinion section, former FishbowlDC editor Patrick Gavin, who most recently left POLITICO after 5 years to work on a documentary about the WHCA dinner, assesses the current state of gossip reporting in Washington and its decline over the past several years.

Every outlet is called out – POLITICO Click (for which he wrote) that was disbanded in December 2013, WaPo, U.S. News, The Hill, Roll Call, and FishbowlDC – as Gavin explores the transformation of traditional gossip reporters to the writing of traditional, “more serious,” reporters.

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