ABSTRACT
Elizabeth A. Marchak is one of thousands of journalists who go on the road to cover news. Her work as a reporter for the Washington, DC, bureau of The Plain Dealer requires her to travel frequently to cover major stories of regional and national interest. Marchak, who has specialized in the aviation industry and campaign finances in recent years, frequently moves around the country in addition to her regular commutes between Washington and Cleveland, where the newspaper is based. As a bureau reporter with a heavy travel schedule, she frequently depends on a porTable computer to keep in touch with e-mail, to write stories, to file stories with her editors in Cleveland, and to check the home newsroom computer system for in-house messages, for background information, for stories by other reporters, and to check her own stories after they have been edited before they are published.
