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Emily Yoffe on When to Hang It Up
Suzy Weiss
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The Free Press senior editor reflects on a 50-year journalism career where she was poked, prodded, decried, cancelled, and vindicated.

Staring down 70, Emily Yoffe decided she didn’t want a deadline hanging over her head for the rest of her life. Read her essay here and watch her discuss motherhood, the media, being misinterpreted, and the thrill of unbridled ambition.

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Suzy Weiss
Suzy Weiss is a co-founder and reporter for The Free Press and host of Second Thought. Before that, she worked as a features reporter at the New York Post. There, she covered the internet, culture, dating, dieting, technology, and Gen Z. Her work has also appeared in Tablet, the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others.
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