It looks like for the VP, third time’s the charm:

Joe Biden has a thing for reporters. Back in December 2008, the vice-president hired former Time Washington bureau chief Jay Carney to be his communications director. When Carney was promoted earlier this year to be White House press secretary, Biden went back to the well and hired Washington Post reporter Shailagh Murray to take Carney’s old job.
Murray was not the first journalist considered to handle Biden’s press. Both CBS News White House correspondent Chip Reid and Slate’s chief political correspondent John Dickerson were possible candidates before Murray was tapped. (Before he got into journalism, Reid served as an adviser to Biden on the Senate Judiciary Committee; before Slate, Dickerson worked alongside Carney at Time.) Both now say they turned the invitations down.
“They asked me if I was interested and I said ‘no,’” Reid told me. After that, Biden himself called Reid personally to see if he’d reconsider, to no avail. Other sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, say the courtship of Reid was more substantial, and that Reid entertained the idea for a while.

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