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...even while at Harvard, Bernstein admits, she was "attracted to journalism." As a student, she worked on The Crimson photo board, "perhaps as a way of sneaking on without yet fully coming to terms with wanting to be a reporter...
Finally, after graduation, Bernstein used a few elippings of Crimson articles she had written (a book review written in French, an editorial on the Nixon Presidency, and a dance review) to secure a position with the Des Moines Register...
...After growing up in New York, and spending the summer in Paris, Des Moines seemed like the dark side of the moon," recalls Bernstein...
However she wrote "13 obituaries every morning and there learned the importance of being accurate for tear of enraging relatives of the corpses." A year of subbing on every beat and solid editorial criticism provided a "good apprenticeship" for Bernstein, who, unlike many of her colleagues, had no formal school training in journalism except for her work with the Crimson...
...years later, married to a University of Wisconsin professor, and with two young children (aged four and seven). Bernstein has returned to Harvard with a perspective altogether different from her undergraduate days. Now she relishes the role of a journalist, though she sees limitations in the profession...