Being a Female Reporter

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from the New Yorker

She was researching a story idea that she would later pitch to magazines and, as a result, was working without any institutional backing. When she died, none of the editors she worked with knew exactly where she was, or what she was doing; she was at the mercy of her interview subject’s decency, and of her environment’s hospitality—a risk familiar to nearly every independent female reporter.