Morning ritual
When I'm in town, I'll run a few miles (I'm training for a race), then I read and do e-mail on the 45-minute train ride. Other days, I run the gauntlet at the airport and hope I get upgraded.

Required reading (print, blogs, etc.)
Political blog First Read; various feeds of client and industry coverage; as well as The New York Times, the FT, and The Wall Street Journal. 

First PR job
I started as a TV reporter for an ...