ABC News' Rick Klein has many roles, his favorite being that of a political director. He swears by Twitter, providing an audience the news they want and staying out of the weeds
Klein got his start in politics as a kid coloring electoral maps instead of iHop placemats. He always had his eye set on covering politics and thought that starting as a print journalist would be his ticket to Washington. After working at The Dallas Morning News and covering politics and the Bush campaign for The Boston Globe, Klein landed at ABC News as a reporter for its website in 2007.
"The phrase I use is platform agnostic. I don’t care, literally don’t care, how you consume your news. I want to get it to you however that way is. If that is purely online or mobile, digital, if that is just through the television airwaves, or radio airwaves, if it's just print, I want to find a way to get you there. If it's just beaming something into your head, I want to be part of that technology," Klein said.
He talks to It’s All Journalism about how political news has changed and what the future holds for journalists covering the next election cycle.
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