Meghan Murphy in my inbox:
There’s a quote that Celina has been thinking about for 13 years since she saw Pete Hamill talk in the newsroom of the Times Herald-Record. “If it’s a murder, write it like a love story; if it’s a love story, write it like a murder.” When she looked at the character [...]

Mike Levine always thought folks who work at newspapers have too many wool sweater conversations, Celina Ottaway told us this afternoon here at the Shandelee Lake Inn. It’s as if we say: The story is about wool sweaters. Now we’ll go out there and ask some people about wool sweaters.
Celina, when she was at the [...]

Celina: “I never had any journalism training. I never had any journalism experience. I had Mike Levine.”

What we’re looking forward to the rest of the day: Celina Ottaway on sourcing at 1:30, Barbara King Lord on precision in language at 3:45 and then of course Pete Hamill on our imperfect craft – tonight, at 7, at the Eddie Adams barn in nearby Jeffersonville.

Meghan Murphy, Adam Bosch and Christian Livermore are here from the Times Herald-Record here in New York’s always gorgeous mid-Hudson Valley. David Filkins, Scott Waldman and Pete Iorizzo are here from the Times Union in Albany. Tim Bontemps is here from the New York Post. Lee Hill Kavanaugh is here from the Kansas City Star. [...]