8/13/14, 3:53 PM Journalism 101 with Politico's Daniel Lippman

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NICK MASSELLA
Young journo Daniel Lippman is quite possibly Washingtons next Mike Allen.
For Daniel Lippman, doing anything other than what hes doing now is unimaginable. Politico announced the full-
time hire of Lippman in June as a researcher-reporter working alongside the venerable Mike Allen in the
production of Playbook, the publications morning must-read newsletter. Having joined Politico in a part-time
capacity in February, Lippman was well-known by top talent at the Rosslyn news outlet even then.
In 2009, Politico profiled Lippman for being recognized by Washington media as the GW student with a penchant
for e-mailing reporters to flag misspelled names, grammatical errors, and broken hyperlinks in published pieces of
work. Since I read so much news, Id notice errors and typos, Lippman says, I just thought, it only takes me a
couple of minutes to send off a quick note, and they can fix the story so thousands of readers wont see that
inaccuracy in there.
But his record of corresponding with some of the nations top political writers didnt just begin when he moved to
DC from Connecticut, where he penned articles on national politics for his high school paper, The Hotchkiss
Record.
While I was in high school, Lippman recalls, the Bush White House had a thing called Ask the White House,
which was a Web forum where they brought in Cabinet officials to answer public questions. Lippman routinely
participated, and doing so led The New Yorker to do a Talk of the Town piece on him in 2005, when he was just
15.
After graduating from GW in 2012, Lippman interned with The Wall Street Journal and The Huffington Post before
traveling to Antakya, Turkey, to cover the Syrian civil war. There, he reported on the Syrian refugee crisis for
CNNs website and, for The Huffington Post, on injured Syrian civilians who crossed into Turkey.
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With the 2016 presidential election fast approaching, Lippman hopes to be involved in Politicos coverage of it,
maybe on the trail or following a particular candidate. And he describes working for Allenthe face of Politico
and assisting him in the production and delivery of Playbook as inspiring.
[Mike Allen] knows what Washington will talk about the next day and what people want to read. Politico
encourages its reporters to write stories no one else has, to push for details, and to really understand the behind-
the-scenes story, says Lippman. What Mike has told me is that the most important thing is your workits not a
clock-in or clock-out. Its more about, Are you writing interesting articles? Is Playbook serving its readers and
continuing to inform people who are reading it?
I keep in mind that you cant get too close to your sources; you have to write what the truth is for the readers
theyre the most important thing. Politicians have their own PR folks, so we serve our readers.
At just the tender age of 24, Lippman promises a media trajectory that were excited to followfor the next 40
years or so.
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