Elaine Povich is a veteran Washington Correspondent. She covered Congress and politics for Newsday for eight years. Prior to that, she was a Freedom Forum fellow engaged in a study of the relationship between Congress and the media. She is the author of Partners and Adversaries: The Contentious Connection Between Congress and the Media.
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Elaine S. Povich
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