In your memoir, you wrote about the difficulties of maintaining objectivity when covering Hillary, which is similar to Sadie's mixed feelings about covering Felicity Walker, a candidate with a strong

In your memoir, you wrote about the difficulties of maintaining objectivity when covering Hillary, which is similar to Sadie's mixed feelings about covering Felicity Walker, a candidate with a strong chance of becoming the first female president of the United States. How much of yourself did you put into the character and how much of it was fiction?

Sadie is the most like me. She writes for a fictional New York Times and romanticizes a bygone era of journalism in the same way I do. Melissa Benoist was amazing and did a lot of research and also shadowed some other journalists. Sadie's central journey is that we are human and that doesn't mean you can't write a difficult story and hold candidates accountable, even if you think they would make a good president. Sadie starts out loving Felicity Walker and then she sees her as a human and that's kind of touching, but it's also freeing because then she can just do the work.