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Article: `The girls in the van': what happened when a lot of women journalists reported on Hillary Clinton's campaign? (Women: United States).(Column)
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- Nieman Reports
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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While covering Hillary Clinton's New York senate race for The Associated Press, I happened to read "The Boys on the Bus," Timothy Crouse's classic tale of reporters on the McGovern-Nixon campaign trail. Although nearly 30 years had passed since the 1972 presidential race, many aspects of campaign coverage remained unchanged--bad food, silly songs, inside jokes, and speeches we knew by heart.
But there was one big difference. Crouse and his colleagues were nearly all men. When I covered Hillary Clinton, my colleagues were predominantly female. Of course there were exceptions, notably correspondents for New York City's major dailies, The New York Times, Daily News ...