J.B. is a staff writer for Governing Magazine, a monthly print publication for lawmakers working in state and local governments across the country. His job is to write large featured articles for the monthly publication as well as shorter, daily write-ups for the online service.
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>> My name is J.B. Wogan. I'm a staff writer at Governing Magazine, and I write about state and local government around the country. I don't really have a typical day. I have a couple different kinds of days. One, when I'm working on a big magazine feature, I'll call maybe 20 people over the course of a two-week span, I'm just trying to dig down deep into a story. I'll sometimes go on site visits, and then there's the, you know, news that's occurred on a single day. I'll go to a speech or a conference, and then, that afternoon, I have to turn around a story that will publish that afternoon. So Governing Magazine goes out to about 85,000 subscribers. All of our readers are practitioners in state and local government. So people in mayors' offices, governors' offices, state legislators, account executives, a lot of policy analysts. So most of my reporting occurs here in DC, by phone, at my desk, but a few times a year, I do to go on site visits for big magazine features and shorter stories for the print edition, and I also write shorter web stories. The length of the stories can vary a bit, so the magazine features are two to three thousand word. The web stories tend be somewhere between 500 and 1,000 words.
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