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Article: Mother of all bureaus: Mother Jones moves to augment its investigative output and Web presence with a new seven-member Washington bureau.(DROP CAP)
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- American Journalism Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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In July Stephanie Mencimer got something that used to be a commodity outside her grasp: a press pass. Not to mention access to LexisNexis, hot coffee and a desk to put it all on.
In the past Mencimer, like almost all of Mother Jones' writers, was part of a network of freelancers. Now, with the opening of the San Francisco-based magazine's Washington bureau, she and six others have a permanent home.
But common newsroom toys like Mencimer's were just the beginning of Editor Clara Jeffery's work in Washington where, with the occasional help of a few others, she spent June sorting out "everything from bureau chief to making sure the phone lines worked."
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