Amy Chozick Tells Cosmo How She Snagged the 'Hillary Clinton Beat'

Why an unfamiliar beat can be a very good thing.

In Cosmo’s latest “Get That Life” column,  New York Times national political reporter Amy Chozick describes to Jill Filipovic how she went from New York-dreaming college student to Hillary Clinton specialist.

Chozick’s entrée into political reporting for the Wall Street Journal–coming in 2007 after a string of beats that included a stint in Tokyo–was also her entrée into politics.

I move back to New York, it’s 2007, and John Bussey calls me and says, “How would you like to go to Iowa with Hillary Clinton?” Iowa was as big a culture shock to me as Japan, and American politics was also totally foreign — I remember not knowing what a caucus was.

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