Until then, Woodward and Bernstein had been all but competing with each other, each keeping his own hunches, scoops, and sources under wraps, not trusting that the other wouldn’t run with the story and steal credit. As they pursued Dahlberg, though, Woodward requested that Bernstein’s byline also be featured, despite him being in Miami, and all future Watergate stories would be co-bylined. Colleagues soon came to see a pattern in the duo’s style: Woodward would tear speedily through a first draft of a story to establish the basic facts and outline, then Bernstein, the better writer, would work
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