I was assigned a story on the “vajazzling” trend for a February 2012 Valentine’s Day story in a women’s magazine published for a conservative audience in North Iowa. The obvious hurdles are probably clear, but I distinctly remember some unexpected ones too:
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In 2012 I was working as a reporter for two small weekly newspapers when I received access to an invitation-only wild game feed, helding in the town of Corwith, Iowa (population: 266).
The hunters were a little wary of having a 23-year-old reporter bumbling around, but they treated me like a true guest. Even though I published one of their infamous quotes about “the worse thing I’ve ever had in my mouth.”