The oldest job in journalism: New York Post ‘runners’ defy AI

The oldest job in journalism: New York Post ‘runners’ defy AI

The NewsEarly St. Patrick’s Day morning, Reuven Fenton and I learned we’d be on pothole duty for the day.At 8:30 am, Lia Eustachewich, the managing editor of news at the New York Post, gave us our marching orders: She was dispatching us up to Pelham Bay Park, at the very end of the No. 6 subway line in the Bronx — the location, according to city records, of the oldest unpatched pothole in New York City.I was just tagging along; this is Fenton’s …