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Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast. Today's

tip is about how to spend less time on email. Email is an incredibly useful tool.

I started my career working as a journalist

and I learned to report before a lot of people

had access to email.

It was a very different experience.

Trying to get people on the phone was often tough.

Sources would call you back while you were on the phone with someone else,

so there was a lot of phone tag.

And since you often had to go through gatekeepers to get people on the phone,

it was tempting to keep calling the same people you knew would talk with you.

Email has opened this all up.

Everyone is more accessible. This is awesome in some ways and it's also a

problem in some other ways. Accessibility means anyone can email anyone

anywhere in the world at any time.

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