We all have our journalistic heroes. I grew up loving Rick Reilly\u2019s back-page column in Sports Illustrated, then discovered that Steve Rushin was even better. A book by Al Franken \u2013 before his foray as a U.S. senator \u2013 opened my eyes to how fun writing about politics could be. NPR\u2019s Steve Inskeep delivered the news in the morning,\u00a0 while Tom Brokaw was the most trusted voice at night on NBC.<\/p>\n
Once I moved to New York, I started devouring local politics coverage online. I read the Observer for politics, got neighborhood news from DNAinfo and deep policy dives from Gotham Gazette.<\/p>\n
And The New York Times\u2019 Michael Powell was my Virgil as I descended into City Hell. His \u201cGotham\u201d column was essential reading over the latter years of Mike Bloomberg and the rise of Bill de Blasio.<\/p>\n
But it was City & State that grabbed me the most. A whole magazine devoted to the world of New York politics. Nobody was doing it like them. And to this day, nobody is doing it like us.<\/p>\n
The outlets I once read are either gone, or scarcely cover local politics, but City & State endures. Twenty years after our founding, we\u2019re still covering New York politics, policy and personalities. And I still wake up with First Read, a habit I adopted nearly 15 years ago.<\/p>\n
In this difficult news industry, we are proud of that consistency, while still delivering something new every single day. We are, after all, the news.<\/p>\n
So after growing up with Newsweek and Rolling Stone, I now get to work with my favorite journalists at a New York magazine of our own, one that makes New York government better. We keep the political community informed and connected, and those in power know that City & State \u2013 and our colleagues in journalism \u2013 is watching, listening and reporting to hold them accountable.<\/p>\n
So in this issue, we\u2019re looking back at the biggest names we\u2019ve covered over the past two decades, and recognizing them in different ways. And we\u2019re looking forward, to another 20 years and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We all have our journalistic heroes. I grew up loving Rick Reilly\u2019s back-page column in Sports Illustrated, then…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[72903,6492,75,84,83,9,24,63,299],"class_list":["post-359621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-20th-anniversary","tag-editors-note","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}