Jennifer Grade 12 Ohio A. Jennifer, The main quality in a good reporter is curiousity. You have to constantly ask questions, seek out the answers, and think about what does and does not make sense. I spent the weekend in Quebec with the President and 20,000 protestors at the Summit of the Americas. I spent Monday at home trying to learn about the President's decision to sell arms to Taiwan. I spent Tuesday at the White House interviewing people for a story on the president's first 100 days in office.
Every day is different, and that's what makes the job exciting.
So every morning that I am in Washington, I drive my son to school. Then I read two or three newspapers. I start my day in the office around 10 a.m. I may go to a briefing at the White House at noon, but the transpcript for the briefing is available on the White House Web site, so I don't always go. I try to get home in time to read my boys some bedtime stories.