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Jessica Yellin

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  1. “It turns out plot is very hard to do. You can't just sit down and it flow and it just develops itself. So I've learned from all these screenwriters you have to have all these cards and storyboards. You should see my office at home. It's like a maze. So hopefully in the next few, hopefully by the end of the year it will be written.”

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  2. “I know it's just pure. She finally gets a shot at it as the first lady disappears, vanishes. And the press becomes totally consumed with figuring out where the first lady is. Meanwhile, inside the White House another story is developing”

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  3. “Great. Sure. I haven't talked about it yet. So let's see how I do with the pitch. It's about a young reporter who's always wanted to cover the White House, and she finally gets a shot at it just as the first...”

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  4. “I think that there is an appetite for long form, and I think there's also an appetite for more nuanced news. I think that, you know, the fact that Netflix is now interested in getting into the news business and that some of these other new platforms are exploring it suggests that maybe we're going to find a new way of bringing out these stories that we haven't been getting from our traditional outlets. I mean, We're not quite there yet because our iPhones can't download, I think, enough material fast enough, but video is the fastest growing area in that market. And I'm sort of optimistic that these companies are investing in this direction. Hopefully we'll get some new voices out there”

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  5. “No, no, sound bites have to be 20 seconds. Interviews have to be seven minutes or shorter. It has to fit in one block. You know, you have to take an entire story. I used to call them news haikus that I'd have to tell the whole story of what happened at the White House today in a minute 15. Fortunately,”

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  6. “I agree. I think it's incredibly challenging. I am less concerned about the mini Tempest and the Teapot than the overall orientation on buzz and conflict and drama and this whole idea of reality news where we pre-digest information, break it down so it's so simple that you don't really have to work to understand it. And we're so resistant to go into the gray areas. It's my experience that viewers want that gray stuff. You just have to tell it in a way that's compelling. You need person, you need characters, you need good storytelling. And that takes time and that takes a commitment of resources. And, you know, people used to say to me, oh, it's hard to get into these stories or foreign stories aren't interesting. But look at the success of vice. Look at the success of documentaries on Netflix. This demonstrates that.”

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  7. “You know, it's, I hate to be, it's so easy to say it's terrible, right? I think there are real advantages to it. It's brought in many more voices. It makes it possible to disseminate information without being part of a massive media structure. And that's really important. And I think that's actually going to help us change so that we can have a more complex nuanced news in our future. But I do think that the way it's impacted traditional media has been not great. We're in such a race with everyone else and we have to put everything on Twitter as quickly as possible to be part of the conversation. You just rush things out and accuracy kind of becomes, can become less important. You can think, well, I can update it later if there's something wrong. So that's a challenge. Another challenge is competition.”

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  8. “Well, I think I say there are a couple things that have impacted the news right now. There's social media and technology, which has just sped everything up. And that's not just”

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  9. “Well, it is interesting. I mean, I'll tell you my mother used to get mad at me when I would report something negative about Hillary Clinton. I mean, I was covering President Obama at the time, or then candidate Obama, I'd get emails that said things like, if it weren't for Hillary Clinton and me, you'd be a secretary today. Not that there's anything wrong with me as Secretary, but I wanted to be a reporter. So there are people, especially if my mother's generation, who feel that Hillary's success is their success. And so when she stumbles, they all catch their breath. But I feel like next generation women or millennial women don't feel that way. And they're judging her the way we judge all candidates and would love her to succeed. But you almost wish that the Clinton team would take that pressure off themselves. Just run a campaign. And, you know, look at Carly Fiorina. She's doing it pretty effectively.”

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  10. “And if she's able to be strong and confident the way she was in this last debate, and she is, it gives other women permission to do the same. I keep saying that what Hillary Clinton needs to do is position herself as the smartest girl in class. You don't always like the smartest girl in class. Sometimes you find her very annoying and you don't want to go to the party with her. But if she's helping you ace your test, you really want her. And this country's facing huge tests, so we want this woman on our side. If she can be that for women professional women, comfortable being the smartest girl in the room, smartest person in the room. And okay with the fact that people don't like her for it, that gives women permission to do the same.”

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  11. “I think sure. I mean, yeah, sure. But it's not necessary. It's not essential. Just like if you're covering a candidate who's from your hometown, you have more insight into the milieu in which they grew up. So, yeah, we have certain kind of insight or shared experiences, and it is very helpful. But I don't think it's not a one-to-one. I think that what I'm saying is though Hillary's created this opportunity for other women, it's almost a shame factor, you know. We just, it's kind of embarrassing if our whole press corps is male.”

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  12. “I think so. And I also think, you know, an example is there was just a piece in Politico talking about the fact that this press corps, the Hillary Clinton press corps, is more female than any press corps before. And it was sort of treated as how surprising, what a funny coincidence. It's not a funny coincidence. It's because news organizations say, wow, we look bad if we have a man or only men on a female candidate. So let's find some women. And that's created more opportunities for women in politics.”

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  13. “And I think it goes to a lot of the different way. I bring it up because it goes to the different way we perceive women fundamentally that we have a very hard time as a culture with women who are comfortable with power and that it's just threatening. And you need your commander in chief to be comfortable with power, but then that becomes, that makes them less appealing.”

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  14. “And it makes it very challenging because women, any woman who's been in the professional workplace knows that it's much easier to communicate if you sort of temper whatever you say with, you know, I'll defer to you on this, but it's my opinion that X, but whatever you think is best. I just think X. But that's just my point of view. And that's not A, how men communicate. And B, not what you want from your commander-in-chief. Yeah.”

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  15. “I think that it is still an uphill battle for women in public life in ways that are sort of baffling in this day and age. The thing that really strikes me about the way Hillary Clinton is covered is sort of how much there's talk about her voice. There's a lot of her, she's so people will say in sort of pundits, she's hard to listen to. She's sort of shrill. There's this, is she too tough? Does she sound off-putting? And some of that is what you'd say of any candidate because they do have to be likable, but there's this way in which women who are assertive and confident are perceived as unappealing, or, shall I say, unlikable.”

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  16. “So I always wanted to be, as I said, And I just felt that I had, you know, sort of, I could have stayed there for a really long time and kept covering these issues. Or I could try to exercise different parts of my skill set. And I wanted to explore my ability to write and creativity and think about new things we could be doing in news because I really do think this is a moment when there's a shift. And I wanted to just get some rest and, you know. regroup so that I could try to figure out what's coming next.”

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  17. “You never know how it'll break. And I remember being an Iowa, and it was my first time, and I would go, I'd call back to home base and say, you know, I think there's something happening here with this guy. You know, these farmers are walking in, being dragged by their kids to these Obama rallies, and by the end, they're doing the wave. And folks would say, oh, that's just Iowa. They're really into politics there. I think this is different.”

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  18. “And some people, networks still sort of sniff at cable, but I just saw how influential CNN was and still is. And so I thought this would be great if I could be there. So I went right before the 2007 election. I was the Capitol Hill correspondent. But I was brand new and I was going to cover the election. And I said, since you're new, you don't get one of the big candidates. So we're going to give you this guy who's not going to win Barack Obama.”

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  19. “Well, it's a different kind of schedule and pacing and lifestyle. So I remember I had this experience in covering George W. Bush and I was still at ABC at the time and we went overseas and he was in Tbilisi, Georgia, and he danced a jig. And it was a very funny video. You could probably, if you pulled it up, you would remember it because you saw it so much. But I remember at the CNN they had so much my colleagues at CNN had so much airtime that they could cover the jig and they could cover the policy and they could cover the meetings. They could go out and do it all. And I wanted a chance to be able to cover more of what was happening. And I also remembered that when I was at every network I've ever been at, CNN is always on. And it's almost the assignment editor for other news channels.”

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  20. “You know, people told me that at the time, people told me that prince dying, you got to go on TV if you want a future. Well, as it turns out, that wasn't so accurate. But now I'm writing now, so that's fun, although I'm writing a novel. It's different. And I hope to incorporate some more reporting print reporting.”

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  21. “The case may be. So, yeah, that could get frustrating. But it's on the other hand, it's the White House. You have an amazing, every so often you're given these moments of oxygen where you can ask a question that becomes meaningful. For me, I loved going to the policy briefings, even though most of what I learned, I couldn't get on air. I just personally love it.”

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  22. “100%. I mean, I got a moment to cover Capitol Hill, and that's amazing. You're just walking into rooms with the member you're covering. You crouch into the speaker of the house, who then takes you in a different direction.”

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  23. “No, it's the reality of White House coverage is so different from what I thought of when I was that 23-year-old sitting in the Clinton White House. And so a large part of it is you just have to be there. For us now that we have email and Twitter and you can get so much information on the phone, you have to be present not so much to get the downloads, but so that you can just be in front of that camera. I mean, on 24-hour news, you're very chained to the camera sometimes. And it is frustrating that you can't go out and do a story about some policy and how it's impacting real people.”

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  24. “I was praying for one so I could sleep. It never materialized. But they had me, you know, I'd cover basically if someone was getting axe murdered or a celebrity was in trouble, it was all me. And I did that for a year, but every time I had a chance to talk to the executives, I'd say my goal is to be White House correspondent. And they'd say, oh, that's so sweet. That's cute. Jason Williams just shot his bodyguard. Why don't you just go cover that? And I'd come back and I'd say, they said you did a good job on that. You're very thorough. I'd say, thank you. My goal is to cover the White House. Go cover the Martha Stewart Trail. No problem. And then one day ABC White House correspondent, who is Kate Snow, got promoted to become the Good Morning America weekend anchor, and they had this opening. And I think they're sitting around and they said, you know, Jessica Yellen is a broken record about covering the White House. Why don't we just send her there to fill the gap? So they let me go and they was told, you're going for two weeks. This is not your job. Do not get excited. Don't get your expectations out of whack. Just fill in.”

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  25. “From MS I did go to ABC where I also did this overnight gig so I'd go in on Fridays overnight and then Saturday overnight not on air just sitting around in case news happened so that they'd have an anchor in position and then Monday through Friday I worked for Good Morning America so I worked seven days a week and during the week”

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  26. “You know, my audition for MSNBC was I had to go in and they make the teleprompter crash so that you have to vamp on your own to see if you can handle with NoScript. And then they start reading in your ear some breaking news event. And could you do this? Well, I had been at Central Florida News 13 where I did absolutely everything on my own. I'd been doing that for a year. So I managed to handle that. And that's a lot of what the overnight was sometimes.”

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  27. “Yeah. I'd go in at 11 at night, or I'd be on at 11 at night and I'd deliver, what was it, your headlines on the half hour? And then I was, but the main job was to be there and available. So it was just about sitting around all night hoping something bad happened somewhere, which is sort of what news is these days”

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  28. “You know what? If he could just deliver well-written lines that someone else would give him, it might be enough. But it's just not where he's headed right now.”

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  29. “I agree. And I also think the thing that Jeb Bush could do to diffuse the situation, he needs to use more humor. If he could sort of be a little more wry and light about it through humor, it would really benefit him.”

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  30. “No. And he also is always giving you a cliffhanger. Stay tuned because next, you know, at this debate, I'll and even you saw it with his Megan Kelly fight right after a big debate. He picks a fight so he stays in the news. It's a reality TV computer.”

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  31. “I mean, you know, yeah, he loves the show And that's part of what Trump understands it is reality TV. I mean, I call what we're doing sometimes reality news. And, you know, we cast in the news off in the extremes because they're good characters, but the person who takes the centrist position is sort of dull, so we don't give them as much airtime. Trump gets that. So he's always, you know, he doesn't only like say things.”

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  32. “Interesting. You know, my recollection was he was very present in Florida. You know, he made himself visibly present, but he really chafed at taking questions. There was a level of discomfort with being not even challenged, but engaged by reporters in a sense that, listen, I'm going to handle this, and then it'll be explained to you. And I kind of have seen that in these debates where he's, it's almost as though he just doesn't want to engage this kind of a process. And I think he's a bright person who's devoted to policy and he cares about certain issues. But I think that the way we are media is constructed where you have to open yourself up and take the questions and take your shots and push back, it doesn't come naturally to him.”

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  33. “And that was a career highlight. I mean, it was, first of all, it was like time-lapse photography. I'm standing there and all of a sudden there's Linda Douglas and there's Cokie Roberts and there are all these people that had been my heroes my whole life and they're here covering the same story I am and I also learned that I had a real affinity at that time for translating complex ideas clearly on air. So I would get the lawsuit, you know, the court decisions and I was good at reading them and processing them and then conveying to the viewers basically the essence of what had happened and I really enjoyed that.”

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  34. “I started to become their political reporter. And there was a Senate race that year in Florida. And I ended up in Democratic, they said, why don't you go to Tallahassee to cover Ben Nelson's campaign? He's the running for Democrat for Senate this year. Great. So I was in Democratic headquarters in Tallahassee, Florida in the year 2000. And that night, I was there when they declared Gore the president. And then they declared Bush the president. And then we didn't know. And I went to bed and I got a page at like 4 a.m. saying, yellen, get to the Secretary of State's office. And I ended up staying in Tallahassee, Florida for 35 days as the recount broke. And I covered it all. And that for me.”

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  35. “Okay, and take it back. You're right. Big time I would always say my advice to younger people is always say what you want. Be very clear and then do what they ask you to do with absolute diligence and commitment. And so I was covering an Orlando sinkholes and triple murders and Terry Shivo and you name it, whatever was going on that's horrific and gory, I was there. But then I would say I'd like to cover politics. So any chance I got, I would do that. And when I went from Orlando, I went to Tampa, which was a big leap to a bigger market. And, you know, I had a cameraman and someone edited tape for me. Like the Marx brothers. It was big time”

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  36. “So when I got into local news, I would always say, I want to cover politics. I mean, this is whenever I talk to young people about rights.”

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  37. “100% because you feel conflicted because you know I could sense they want me there and they want to tell this story but it also feels voyeuristic on my part And I almost want to tell them But, you know, it's often, maybe it was that, it was therapy for them.”

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  38. “Not a tall person. Camera almost bigger than I am. But like you, I had that experience or I was always surprised people often invited me in for interviews after. For example, a child had died. And to me, that was, I mean, it's such an intimate moment to come into someone's life. And in many of these local markets, I found that people, instead of perceiving the media as an intrusion and were hornets that should get out of their way, it was a way of honoring commemorating a person”

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  39. “It was a disaster And people are confused when you're trying to conduct an interview as both the reporter and the camera person. And I'm not a particularly tall person. I mean, it was just very awkward, you know, staring up at people.”

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  40. “100%. I mean, I grew up in West Los Angeles, you know, and I, from a fairly comfortable privileged background. And I ended up in Orlando, Florida as a one-man band reporter, which means I carried my own camera. I would shoot all my own interviews, and I would even shoot the stand-up, the part where the reporter is on camera. And that was always, I mean, it was a comedy routine. Just you would have to set the camera down, lock it in place, hit record, then run in front of the camera, do your little bomb, bomb.”

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  41. “And you know, I ended up, I have had my moments in my career when I've gotten to do those stories that I thought mattered. But yeah, you end up doing in the maw of, you know, the rhetorical fights every day.”

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  42. “Yeah. Because I also, when they reported what they reported, it actually impacted policy. It impacted, oh, everybody in the White House would then shift a little. We have to pay attention to what's happening in the news. And I thought it's such a powerful microphone. It's such a powerful agent to sort of wear this focus the spotlight on issues that matter. I want to focus the spotlight where I think it really matters. And for me, that was people who are sort of not, who don't naturally have access to power. And in particular, I cared about single women and, you know, children who were growing up in poverty, that kind of thing, which it turns out is not great TV fodder since discovered.”

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  43. “Set out to do so, I ended up, I mean, it took me a long time to get to the White House. I went through local news and I had a lot of those experiences first.”

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  44. “If I were one of those reporters, I would cover the real stuff. I would cover the stuff that matters. And I want to do that because everybody in the White House listens to those reporters and it matters. So I decided I wanted to be one of them.”

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  45. “Yes, that too. I had this sort of crystallizing experience when I worked in the Clinton White House. There was a TV in the corner of the room I worked in and it was one TV at that time, only CNN, you know, it was 24 hours. It hung on fish wire. And I remembered there were two things that could stop everybody in the West Wing, just make silence. One was a president walking into your workspace, and the other was CNN reporting a story on the White House and everybody just stopped still. And I was always, I found myself to be frustrated often when they would be covering, for example, David Watkins took a helicopter to go golfing. And this is a big scandal because one of the president's aides is using taxpayer helicopters to golf. But there are all these important issues we were working on inside the White House that weren't being covered. And I thought.”

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  46. “100%. I happen to think if I had gotten access to the president himself and had this conversation, it would have been incredibly productive. And I now know that his welfare reform policy has actually proven to be pretty effective. And the very people I was worried that it would hurt, which are single mothers and children, actually benefited and they got a lot of what they needed. But, you know, I was 22. I was idealistic. And I cared about language. Language matters, you know, that whole thing. And this just sent me off the rails.”

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  47. “I really felt that it was an environment that was like an uncool. It almost felt as though it's uncooled to be passionate about policy and ideas, that it was Childlike or not seen as”

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  48. “Two things. I was really surprised that the people who were political who did strategy were really influential. They had the closest access to the president. But the people who were deep thinkers and did policy and worked on ideas, they had the fourth floor offices across the And the other thing that really upset me at that moment was I worked for a while on the announcement for the welfare reform announcement when Bill Clinton were going to make welfare, change welfare as we know it, whatever. And he used the word illegitimate and wedlock in his speech. And I thought, why is this man describing the children of single mothers as illegitimate? This is not the person I want to be working for. This is not why I'm spending my date. Like I got very upset.”

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  49. “I did Los Angeles, and my parents are really involved in the civic community of LA and California and this real commitment to contributing to your community. And my dad was a frustrated politician. He wanted to be mayor of LA. So the idea was I was supposed to go into politics. But then I went to work in the White House and I was so sort of taken aback by how politics worked. You know, I was fresh out of college, so I didn't know what to expect.”

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  50. “Never. My dad was JFK's personal page at the Democratic Convention. And he was just a child of Camelot. Like his eyes lit up anytime you talked about that kind of the idea of doing well while doing good.”

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