When David Carr Was Jake Tapper's Boss

"I was really lucky that I had this guy who was in the process of becoming a legend as my first editor"

Long before he took over the 4pm hour on CNN, Jake Tapper was scraping together a living at the Washington City Paper. His boss — his first as a legit newspaper reporter — would quickly become a mentor, then a legend. That was David Carr, who died tonight after collapsing in the newsroom of the New York Times. He was the Times’s media columnist, but was so much more.

We talked with Tapper several years ago for our “So What Do You Do?” series.

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