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...result is a fascinating and somewhat chilling tale, produced in extraordinary collaboration by two of our savviest political analysts, senior writer Richard Stengel and senior correspondent Eric Pooley. "With Rick and Eric, you know you're going to get the story behind the story," says senior editor Priscilla Painton, who along with assistant managing editor Steve Koepp oversaw our election-issue package. "Eric burrows into a story and doesn't come back until he has every detail. Rick never loses sight of the big picture...
...when national political correspondent Michael Duffy called Wednesday morning to say that Bob Dole seemed set to surprise folks by picking his longtime antagonist Jack Kemp as a running mate, we realized that the convention package being prepared by Stephen Koepp, Priscilla Painton and their Nation team was becoming the most fascinating political story of the year. It embodied all the marvelous interplay between politics and personality that has been TIME's franchise for 73 years. If the presidential race is destined to tighten (and I suspect it is), this could do it, and it will help clarify the very...
That made it the kind of week that shows off to best advantage the talents of Priscilla Painton, the Nation section's indefatigable senior editor. Her mandate stretches from coast to coast; the campaign, and for that matter politics, is only one of the many stories that fall under her watch. Juggling it all, while meeting journalism's unforgiving deadlines, calls for mental rigor and tireless curiosity--something Painton has in abundance. "She has an unerring sense about where the real story is," says chief of correspondents Joelle Attinger. "She's always pushing the envelope to know more...
...often suspect that Priscilla has some kind of antenna in her office that picks up new ideas and stories before anyone else has tuned into them," says assistant managing editor Steve Koepp. Of course, if there's a gene for journalism, Painton may enjoy a hereditary advantage. Her father Fred Painton is a TIME writer of long standing. Because he was frequently posted abroad, his daughter was born in Rome and graduated from high school in Paris, where, she says, "politics is inhaled with the first breath...
...graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Painton worked at the Washington Post and the Atlanta Constitution, where she covered Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign, before joining us at TIME to cover the 1992 Clinton campaign. Those long months on the road gave her a respect for reporters that she will apply continually in this election year. "We won't be cynical, and we won't pontificate,'' she promises. "Our coverage has been, and will be, rooted in our reporting...