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Elizabeth Zach: Do you do breaking news? And also, when you were working in Kosovo, did you cover anything there that might have put you in danger?
Valerie Plesch: I covered so many protests in Kosovo. There was so much tension between the government and the people, corruption and such a young country. Young people were just so feeling disenfranchised. Unemployment was at a high level. The income level was so low. People were angry. So, when I first arrived in Kosovo, for the first, I would say, one to two years, I was covering so many street protests and it got quite dangerous. That was my first experience with tear gas. My first experience seeing people throwing rocks and bricks at police officers. My first time being confronted by riot police. My first times seeing people throwing Molotov cocktails at the main government building in the capital. I have never seen this kind of stuff before and to be documenting it was hard. But of course, in D.C., we have protests all the time. I've been covering a lot of that, breaking news when the National Guard arrived in Washington, D.C. The first day that they came to D.C., I was sent out to Union Station to cover that. And then they were on the National Mall. So, I was covering them for over a period of several days. I even sometimes have to work very late at night. Yeah, I live in a neighborhood called Logan Circle. And the first day that they were in my neighborhood, it was also the first time that they were patrolling at nighttime. And it was during the summer when all these young people are out on the streets going to bars and restaurants, so I was working until past midnight just going up and down my street documenting people going out at night, and then you see the presence of the National Guard.
Valerie Plesch: I covered so many protests in Kosovo. There was so much tension between the government and the people, corruption and such a young country. Young people were just so feeling disenfranchised. Unemployment was at a high level. The income level was so low. People were angry. So, when I first arrived in Kosovo, for the first, I would say, one to two years, I was covering so many street protests and it got quite dangerous. That was my first experience with tear gas. My first experience seeing people throwing rocks and bricks at police officers. My first time being confronted by riot police. My first times seeing people throwing Molotov cocktails at the main government building in the capital. I have never seen this kind of stuff before and to be documenting it was hard. But of course, in D.C., we have protests all the time. I've been covering a lot of that, breaking news when the National Guard arrived in Washington, D.C. The first day that they came to D.C., I was sent out to Union Station to cover that. And then they were on the National Mall. So, I was covering them for over a period of several days. I even sometimes have to work very late at night. Yeah, I live in a neighborhood called Logan Circle. And the first day that they were in my neighborhood, it was also the first time that they were patrolling at nighttime. And it was during the summer when all these young people are out on the streets going to bars and restaurants, so I was working until past midnight just going up and down my street documenting people going out at night, and then you see the presence of the National Guard.
