11-year-old girl gets open invite to become a journalist for the day
New York Times reporter Liam Stack recently took to Twitter to share a different kind of news.
He wrote that his cousin's 11-year-old daughter had secretly downloaded The Washington Post and had been an avid reader fo the newspaper for two years.
Today I learned that my cousin’s 11 year old daughter somehow downloaded The Washington Post app — without my cousin’s knowledge — at the age of 9 and has been a loyal reader for the last two years.
— Liam Stack (@liamstack) 11 January 2018
To make the girl even more impressive (as if that was possible) she wants to study journalism when she grows up and, you guessed it, work for The Washington Post.
When people ask what she wants to be when she grows up, my cousin said her 11 year daughter tells them she wants to study journalism and work for The Washington Post. It is apparently the most specific answer in her class.
— Liam Stack (@liamstack) 11 January 2018
Stack continued to say that he was about the same age when he began to take an interest in reading newspapers and following current affairs.
Twitter users, as are we, are loving this girls ambitions:
I was pretty young when I started hoarding The Economist and confusing my parents with my weirdly specific knowledge of international politics
— Olivia Messer (@OliviaMesser) 11 January 2018
My oldest read the Chicago Sun Times, cover to cover, from the age of 9. He graduated from college.with a degree in multimedia journalism, and is amazing at what he does.
— Rae (@RaeLyn99) 11 January 2018
Somebody's being raised right. Kudos to your cousin.
— Patricia J. Raube (@PatriciaJRaube) 11 January 2018
Your Cousin’s Daughter for Pres 2020
— Lorin Mallorie (@LorinMallorie) 12 January 2018
What made it even better, is that The Washington Post themselves even replied to Stack's tweet, inviting the girl to become a journalist for a day:
Please tell her that she has an open invite to spend a day with us. (And that @PostBaron keeps a jar of peanut M&MS in his office.)
We're all very excited to work for her someday.
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) 11 January 2018
"We're all very excited to work with her one day," they concluded.
This girl is going places!