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must haves 4 9 1 10 5 6 7 2 3 8 *SPA alumnus, Buzzfeed legal editor covering LGBT issues 1. Supreme Court briefs are printed in the press room as soon as decisions come out. These are the four biggest cases from the past term, including the case challenging the Defense of Marriage Act. 2. I live on Starbucks venti iced coffee with sugar-free vanilla. 3. I’ve had my Sony digital voice recorder for three years. If I’m at a press conference, I can throw it on the podium and still use my iPhone to Tweet and take pictures. 4. One of the rules I learned at the conventions was “ABC: always be charging.” I’m never without my iPhone 4S and Mophie backup battery. 5. This Buzzfeed notebook is almost too nice to write in. 6. I always wear a tie at the Supreme Court and the White House. When I’m on Up with Steve Kornacki on MSNBC, they encourage you to be casual, but I can’t get over what my mother’s reaction would be if she saw me on national TV without a tie. I also carry a spare pair of glasses; they once snapped right in the middle, so I had to do Last Word without glasses. 7. I worked for Metro Weekly from 2009 to 2012. They started my career. Buzzfeed gave us the iPad Mini as a present the first month the website got 40 million unique views. 8. My 13-inch MacBook Air travels well and has a good battery life. The Verizon MiFi allows journalists to write more than five sentences with their thumbs on a phone. 9. I have subway cards from D.C. and New York, where Buzzfeed’s headquartered. I go to Boston just because it’s Boston. 1 0 . Twitter and modern journalism are inextricably intertwined. I got this button from the Twitter booth at one of the national political conventions (from which I’ve kept all my press credentials) last fall. I have over 21,000 Twitter followers (@chrisgeidner). PHOTO BY MACEY FORONDA/BUZZFEED 48 AMERICAN MAGAZINE NOVEMBER <strong>2013</strong>
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