My First Byline: Nick Riccardi

National politics reporter, Associated Press

Courtesy of Nicholas Riccardi

What is your current job?

I’m a national political reporter with the Associated Press, based in Denver.

What was your first byline?

My first byline was at an old weekly newspaper called The Villager that covered Greenwich Village in the 1980s. A much, much smaller and squarer version of the Village Voice. I was an intern at the…