Quiero entrevistar a Cristina is a new Perfil.com blog where two relatively young political reporters write about their efforts to interview President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner – neither of them is over 25 and they have a combined working experience of under three years.
One of the reporters, Payito Blanco, works for Perfil.com and the other, Ana Clara Pérez Cotten, works for its sister publication Noticias, Argentina’s top current affairs magazine (Perfil.com and Noticias share the same floor, without even a wall standing between them). The pair’s chances of interviewing Fernández de Kirchner are as slim as they get because she doesn’t speak to publications owned by the Perfil publishing house due to its criticism of the administration (her leading officials follow suit).
The idea is to approach the blog with a lighthearted touch. The feat is nearly impossible, so Payito and Ana Clara believe they may as well do it with a bit of humour even though they do their work as seriously as possible. They have a three month deadline.
