The Press Gallery

As I have written before, one goal I have with this blog is to pull back the curtain on what it's like to be a reporter, how we go about our jobs and how we interact with the people we cover and with each other. Every day Congress is in session and sometimes when it is not, I show up to work at a desk in the Senate Press Gallery on the Capitol's third floor above the Senate Chamber. There is a row of seven cubicles and I'm at the end between the Chattanooga Times Free Press and the Tulsa World. Like everyone else in every other office, gossip is rampant. There's always chatter about who's up, who's down, who's in, who's out (a combination of "The Apprentice" and "Project Runway"). That said, here's the buzz in the press gallery today.