Were all the kids adopted in your family . Yes. My brother is from philadelphia and my other brother is from korea. I consider my real family. I actually dont have any desire to go back and find my roots. I would like to go to korea. It seemed like a great country. But my family is my family. So i am content with that. What is your current job . I am senior political reporter at the Huffington Post. Basically i spend most of my time reporting. But i also help said the editorial direction of the politics team. They dont have a beat here and so campaigns, congress, whatever is going on, i have an idea or scoop onto my right about that. I read somewhere where you are evil. [laughter] whats that all about . One of the most dangerous in america one of the most dangerous woman in america. That is know what about. It is from the Security Matters group. I dont remember what it was about. But if you are spending your time before the huntington post to my was at the center for mac and i was working on a blog think progress. It was a progressive blog. We would rebuff what politicians and pundits were saying and we didnt always make people happy. I looked at some of the advisors on family Security Matters. A lot of names i didnt recognize. Your 10th on the list good to want to show you some video that was recorded a few months ago and longtime veteran reporter for cbs and 60 minutes, basically talking about old media versus new media and the meet your take on this. [video clip] citizen and journalism. You need to work within certain discipline. I think many of these others give the real thing a very bad name. Because now everybody is on the internet. One of the problems i have with in terms of reading everything looks as valid as the new york times, whether it is the typeface or the way it is , whether you are someone who believes aliens are out to get him or reading something from the opted pages of the new york times, it all has the same look and makes the same visual sense. Does he have a point . I talked with a lot of people who say that they are worried about the state of journalism now. I find it very saying to be in journalism now and it is a great time for young people to be getting involved in journalism and groups of people who normally wouldnt have been involved in journalism. Again, i grew up in a very small town. We had our local paper her. If we were lucky, we get the buffalo news. That was out that was about it. School, i was listening to npr and looking online and i have all of these of the resources because of the internet and because of new media. Morehat started to get me interested in journalism. I have always wanted to come to washington. I saw this more as a possibility. Agree, when you go on the internet, everything looks the same. I think that readers and new media consumers have become a lot more discerning. You read faces you trust. That is why a lot of times the articles we write, we do our own reporting, but maybe i will use a quotehat someone gave reuters were the Washington Post and i will link to reuters or the Washington Post and give them credit for. Byyou can read an article your favorite authors. They might say hey, good to andrew cell of an and see what is on his blog. Your youhat i like start to figure out who you trust. Absolutely, there are things i read on the internet, a blog i have never seen come i dont really know whether or not i should trust it. So i usually look into it a bit more myself. But that is what i like about new media. Readers become more savvy and become more intelligent and it is a process of discovering and a much more assertive and interactive way of getting the news. Who owns the Huffington Post . Believe she owns it and we have part of aol. Doesnt matter to you that she owns it or runs runs it or at least she started it . She is still involved in the site and shes not one of those people who started a site and stepped back. Workingeally like about with ariana and working at the it isgton post is that not driven by what will be popular or what will get cliques in the stories this will get clicks. Doing storiesare on black america, stories that may not get all the clicks, but to that we feel are portant. People who are being pushed under in this new economy and are having trouble getting their food stamps, getting back on their feet after they left their jobs. Like the freedom we are given at the Huffington Post. You can write longer stories. You can go more in depth gave you can combine that with video and new media. And give the reader a more full package. I have my ipad and it has the Huffington Post appear and a headline with one of your trademarks. This is a couple of weeks ago. What advice do you have there is so much information from page, politics, tech, media, world, healthy living, lifestyle how would you advise people on how to deal with this website . I remember when i first went to the Huffington Post, i felt the same way. How do they navigated . A lot of people look at the front page and click on the stories from there. Some people look at the top and say i am interested in politics or sports and maybe entertainment. Finding and more, i am people go on facebook and looking at what links there see. See their friends they will click on the story and then they discover Huffington Post, through social media. Im going to lunch this button here that says live. This is your television effort. What can you tell us about your television effort . How much are you doing with Live Television . It is basically streaming on our site all day long. Much every topic, just like Huffington Post, politics, sports, entertainment, the environment, everything. And you have posts in new york and l. A. Ndc and we have reporters going on and note where the guests. But what is unique about it is that it is all done through google hangouts. So we have community members, two. They can join in the conversation and asked conversations and get their thoughts as well. I am looking at something right now, for someone who hasnt heard of a glue will hang out, how does it work . You have a command that you have a camera on your so you have a camera on your computer and you have an account on google hangouts. It says you to be an honored guest. Es. Yes. What do you look at yourself . I try to look everywhere. My morning starts when i get the print version of the Washington Post. I still enjoy getting the print version of the paper because i find that reading the newspaper you tend to read more. Beyond that, i listen to talk radio and im watching cspan and cable news. I am going to as many new , looking at topics and people im following and interested in covering. So i am looking at twitter and facebook, everywhere. What is the number one issue you are interested in . I think that changes on a daily basis. Right now, i am covering sequestration. It touches the country and the economy in some a different ways and i hear from a lot of people who being furloughed, who can i isone thing i researched that something dominates next to your name almost all through the process. Msnbc storyn old and get you to explain this. Jesse waters and a cameraman ambushed her just after she checked into a hotel on vacation in winchester, virginia. They surmise that the two men must have stayed at her apartment and followed her car for two hours to the date to vacation destination. They asked her about her three week told post. He wrote a blog of you wrote a blog about though andilly and you attack him the foundation and you brought a lot of pain and suffering to this group and what is your reaction . I was highlighting a comment that bill oreilly had said. I dont remember attacking the foundation. What did bill oreilly say . I cant remember exactly what he said because it was a high ago. But i remember it was something having to do with he had talked about a rape victim and in a derogatory way that placed the blame of the rate on the victim. What else do you want to say about this event . That was march 2009. I was in winchester, virginia coming couple of hours away from washington, d. C. I never got an explanation for how they tracked me down. We tried contacting fox news and we never got an answer. On retrospect, my boyfriend and i remember seeing a car following is the entire time. Thing is that they found my apartment and thought we were going to the store and followed us across state lines at virginia. Was an unfortunate episode, i think, sort of a love for journalism. I had linked to a blog post by another blog sort of a low point for journalism. I had linked to a blog post by another blog. I heard that he had said remarks about rape victims. I had never mentioned the organization. They never asked me for comment. A ambushed me when i was on vacation. I did not remember what i had written three weeks ago. The result was basically this. It rot a lot of attention. It brought a lot of attention. Orn youre described as evil hurting rape victims, you dont know what attention that will bring. Example, myor office locked its doors. They werent sure what would happen. It ended up being fine. In part, i think it is because we knew that bill oreilly said it would air monday evening. I put up a post and got got a lot of attention and it wasnt just from other progressive loggers. It was from a lot of insert of bloggers who said that what he did was inappropriate. A lot of conservative loggers who said that what he did was an approach rape and what he did was inappropriate. So i dont think it went well for oreilly. Were you at the center for mac in progress . Yes. I was a littleknown known blogger and got a lot of attention for that. At the time, Keith Olbermann and bill oreilly were in a few. Keith oberman had me on his show. So i got a lot of exposure from that. The residual lasted for a couple of years were people say, oh, i remember you. I saw you on bill oreilly show. I think that has died down but it did start a conversation whether this kind of ambush journalism was acceptable. What is a lesson for you about all this . I think there have been seven different shows on this or seven different pieces. And bill oreilly and Keith Oberman were calling each other names during the whole process. People watch it. Yes, people watch it. From my perspective, is a good for journalism . I dont think its a good when you dont like someone, what they write, that you go track them down without any warning to its not like i had been ignoring their calls. They never contacted me for, and. They never contact me to be on the show. They never contacted me for comment. They never contacted me to be on the show. It wasnt journalism. They want tried to get a real response from a. They were trying to from me. They were trying to intimidate me during so for intimidate me. For a woman living alone and having two guys ambush her, it had anyshow that he sympathy for women who had been victims of rape. They did make me more aware and more careful. And when i speak to a lot of young journalists, young women journalists, i tell them that you should be aware. You should be careful. I monitor a lot of the emails i get, the hate mail i think getting hate mail is something that probably every journalist gets. But i keep track of them. If anything starts to repeat come i keep track of them and i tell young journalists that they should, too. You have a twitter account and a facebook account. Any other ways that you communicate with people . Twitter, facebook, email, and my stories. That is pretty much my remain my main ways. Who is behind it is hilarious. It has nothing to do with me. Fake person who is always angry at everything. And they seem to love to use a lot of language. You cant read it all on air. I can. Where the f is this baby. Just spoke to the royal baby. It wants to tell you you are unloved and you should fing die. And you know who the people are that are doing this. I do her. I knew when they were starting it, they pulled my picture and i said that was fine. It has honestly been hilarious. I have a lot of people now who refer to me as turkel rage. A lot of people think that is my real twitter account. But thats not me. I am not angry all the time. Looked i lock when i at it, but she must be behind it. Now. It is very clever and angry. You want to tell us who is doing it . No, its a secret. Rage. T go into a i get worked up and i am passionate about the news and politics, but i am not like that. How we how do we know when youre being passionate . A comes across in my writing. Again, i dont use that sort of language in my writing. But there is a lot going on. There are a lot of issues going on the people care about. Hopefully, when we highlight those things, people are moved. Journalism shouldnt be so removed are distant. If society is wrong or lying, they should be called out. I dont think they should be given equal time with the truth. So hopefully that comes across in the writing. Act to your roots at home, what did your parents do . My dad was a photographer. Andid family portraits things like that. And he worked at the school as a teachers aide for a. My mother works for what was a long time a local chevrolet dealership, in the office. Where did you get your interest in politics . I dont know. Grandfather, who passed away before i was born, was involved in politics. But i dont think it came from there because i never knew him. Looked aboutme, i i thought it would be a high school he was teacher. But i took a field trip to washington and i really enjoyed eating in washington, being in politics. Enjoyed being in washington, being in politics. School, wein high had politicians come to our school and talk. So i went to those. So by the time i went to college, i knew i would be a Political Science major. Washington inspired me. Hopefully, it still does for some people. I dont know if it still does these days. How old are you . I was in eighth grade. What do you remember from that trip . A lot of it was fuzzy. We did a lot of the tourist attractions. We went to the white house, the capital, but i think just being around all this i ended up going back in my senior year for of the class trip and then i did a program called residential classroom which brought a lot of young people who are interested in politics called president ial classroom which brought a lot of young people who are interested in politics together. For me, it was really energizing. Cemented itof what for me. Would you call yourself a journalist now or an activist . I am a journalist now. When i was at the center for mac and progress, it was a unique data center for american progress, it was a unique job. It was a nice mix. Better but i really like the journalism part. I love talking to people, going to events, so when Huffington Post kos quote had an opening for a reporter, i was very interested in that Huffington Post had an opening for a reporter, i was very interested in that. I now get to report and help edit and manage and i love it. Do you know how many people come to Huffington Post every day . I dont. I luckily dont have to concern myself with that too much. Recently, you were on a panel ge 2000. Id for activistsroup and bloggers, but there arent as many bloggers. I was there on a panel. I was also there covering some speakers and events going on. I was there covering it, but i was also doing a panel. Topeople understand how watch this news when they are activists and are involved. On the panel was with you for emilys list. That is a prochoice organization that is for women who run for office and are democrats. She is talking about the ability for people like her to influence the liberal press, lets watch which he says. [video clip] progressive leaning, they are not part as an allies at all. There is no chance that i can call up anybody at mother jones to kill a story that was against democrats or pitch a story that was crap. Those outlets have a reputation, but the journalism is absolutely solid and not slanted at all. And i think that is understood and respected by other journalists. Should people watching believer . Believe her . Yes, absolutely. We have comments from harry reid, but we also have comments from Mitch Mcconnells office. We have republican members who talk to us all the time. The same on the democratic side could we have people on both sides to hate us here in hate us. So we let the reporting speak for itself durin. There are many people i have run into at tea party rallies who dont trust the new york times. But if you really are reporting, it speaks for itself. On the screen you didnt see it a headline from earlier today on Huffington Post. You see the two leaders there. Who writes those . We have a team of people who writes them. Usually, it is crowd source. They will say that here are some ideas. Does anybody else have any ideas . But we have a team of people who run the front page and a team of people who run the politics page and they are responsible for coming up with headlines and making sure we have the breaking news emma making sure that all the pictures look great and writing headlines is an art that takes a long time to master here. If you write an article, can you write the headlines for it . Yes. Sometimes they will change them. We know our stories better than anyone else. They may change them and accept them, but ultimately they but ultimately, it is our story. In the d. C. Office, most of the staff is most of the staff is in new york. But in the d. C. Office, there are about six people. Moving instand youre this timeframe, but this will give people an idea of what it looks like up close. Why do journalists sit so close together without any separation, without a cubicle, and how can you think when you are writing . We feed off of gathers energy. On we are iming each other. What does that mean . We send messages to each other. But we also like to shout out ideas to each other. We like to talk. I could work from home, but it is more useful when i am in the office because i hear what everyone elses thinking and what everybody else is saying and i disney better ideas. I get betternd ideas. What is the average age of the people in that room . I dont know. It is a very young office. Work in media who tend to be very young. It is what they have grown up with. Even for me, i feel like i am getting a little older for it. People who are just graduating from college, they have only known social media and media online stuff. We dont have to teach them. They just know it. Here is video of you at that nation session where youre talking about video journalism. [video clip] if you go to your local members town hall and you get a gr