“Everyone’s gotten a little bit older and a little more tired of being constantly rendered invisible,” Ms. Friedman spoke about her younger - well, relatively younger - days in the city. One sweltering DC evening many months ago, Ann Friedman, 29, then an editor for The American Prospect, sat with her friends Annie Lowrey, a reporter for Slate Suzy Khimm and Kate Sheppard, reporters for Mother Jones Marin Cogan, a reporter for Politico Phoebe Connelly, a freelance writer and former web editor for The American Prospect Britt Peterson, an editor at Foreign Policy Dayo Olopade, a writer for The Daily Beast, Kay Steiger and Shani Hilton, editors at Campus Progress Kat Aaron, a reporter for the Investigative Reporting Workshop Monica Potts, a blogger for The American Prospect Amanda Terkel, a reporter for The Huffington Post and Laura McGann and Sara Libby, editors for Politico, at a bar on U Street. Indeed, arguably they are themselves approaching power-elite status (as well as, gasp, age 30). Once they lived in groups in squalid homes and stayed out late, reading comic books in between posts as more seasoned reporters slogged their way through traditional publications like “The Hill” and “Roll Call.” Now the members of this “Juicebox Mafia,” as they were first called by Eli Lake of The Washington Times, in a reference to youth, have become destination reading for - and respected by - the city’s power elite. In only a few years, these young men and others like them have become part of the journalistic establishment in Washington. So in addition to being younger, we were also a bit less overwhelmed. “Four years ago, we were far less professionalized, and the work was less rigorous and less stressful. Beutler said, speaking of a wave of Washington bloggers who have come of age together. “Everyone’s gotten a little bit older and a little more boring,” Mr. Beutler spoke about his younger - well, relatively younger - days in the city. Recovering from a cold as snow fell outside, Mr. ONE winter evening, Brian Beutler, 28, a reporter for the online publication Talking Points Memo, sat with his friend and roommate Dave Weigel, 29, a political reporter for Slate and a contributor to MSNBC, at a coffee shop on U Street.
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