Since then, she’d become the lead crime reporter at the paper, and one of the best in the whole city. And yet the pressure was always on to prove she deserved to be there and had the chutzpah to stay. That pressure would not end with this story or the next. The necessity to arrive earlier, stay later, and work twice as hard (and get paid half as much), simply for the privilege to be allowed to be there, trailed her like a constant shadow. But it also meant she found herself with the power to shape the narrative of the news, not only by which stories she covered but also by how she covered
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