What happened when a lot of women journalists reported on Hillary Clinton’s campaign?
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 and New York Post. But they were outnumbered by women from AP, Reuters, Gannett’s suburban daily The Journal News, The New York Observer, Newsday, USA Today, an ABC producer, the WCBS-TV and WCBS radio correspondents, and crews from a local news cable channel, NY1. Throw in a few female photographers, three out of Clinton’s four
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