We voters are glad Mega Election Day is over, and we journalists are glad Mega Election Night is behind us, too.

I’ve written previously about the deadline step known as the Dance of the Headless Chickens. Well, the newsroom dance floor is packed on the night of a major election. It’s like a Headless Chicken Dance Marathon—on election nights, we truly are poultry in motion.

But it’s nights like that that remind us why we got into this business in the first place.

Breaking news is exciting, scary, stressful, exhilarating, challenging, blood-pumping, edge-of-y...

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