Peter Kafka @pkafka
I love “parachute” as a pumped-up verb journalists use to describe what we do instead of “take a flight to a place we don’t know much about, ask people some questions and file a story from there.” — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Dougherty @ConorDougherty
I really want to read a story in which a West Coast reporter/news org parachutes into NYC to write about the Mayor's race.