He thrived on the speedy, digital-first pace at Politico and he took pride in winning the daily sprint races. He and his colleagues saw themselves as scrappy upstarts who stood out from the rest of the press pack covering the 2008 presidential race, he later recalled. “I could sit at a press conference, type what a politician said in my blog, and it’d be online 20 minutes before anyone else because they had editorial processes that weren’t fast enough for the Internet.”
