![]() But it marked a more fundamental adjustment for the hundreds of lawmakers and staffers who populate Washington, suddenly confronting a new set of rules about what gets covered and when. It was ambitious - and it ran its own reporters absolutely ragged.ĭaniel Reilly, one of the early Capitol Hill reporters at POLITICO, recalled: “You truly felt like you were on a high-wire tightrope between two skyscrapers with no parachute.”įor POLITICO reporters, it was disorienting and exhausting. ![]() While it turned deadlines upside down - days and hours transformed into minutes and seconds - it also satisfied a “thirstiness” for community among Washington professionals wanting to see and be “seen” in Playbook. ![]() It frustrated press secretaries and offended the at-times tender sensibilities of the 200-year-old institution that is Congress, demystifying the protocols and personalities that made Capitol Hill run. It was both serious and mischievous, high and low, in print and on the web, substantive and fun, with a twist of tabloid. ![]() With its relentless pace and radically different standard for what constituted news, POLITICO at turns confused, thrilled and maddened its audience in the nation’s capital.
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