And to continue, our focus on new voices, I'm joined by Maya King. She's a politics reporter for the New York Times. I'll let her tell me the exact number of years, but was a political reporter based in Atlanta and the Southeast Bureau covering politics in the Southeast, which is an incredible beat, except she just got

promoted it even better beat these days, as far as the New York Times, Massdad is concerned,

which is New York politics, which includes the mayor's race. So the timing is also wonderful.

My King, it's nice to meet you. Welcome to the podcast. Great to meet you.

Thank you for having me.

So before we dive into what is potentially an historic race that you're covering

that I hope you save notes on because it may be the makings of a book at some point.

Give me your origin story.

What got you into political journalism?

And because these days, I am concerned that fewer people under the age of 30 are considering

journalism and you're, you know, you're on one of the great paths that you can have in

the world of journalism.

So tell me your origin story.

How'd you get here?

Sure.

Sure.

Well, I'll start by saying I grew up in a 60 Minutes household.

So already I've sort of bucked a lot of the tradition of people my age.

My parents were huge political junkies and watched a lot, a lot of cable news.

And I remember in middle and high school,

watching these segments on Sunday nights and thinking, I would actually really love to do this.

I'd love to write about these things. And so that was sort of the path that I started myself on.

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