 Argetsinger started her journalism career in 1991 in the Illinois/Iowa Quad Cities, at the Rock Island "Argus" and Moline "Daily Dispatch".She joined "The Washington Post" in December 1995 as a Metro staff writer in the paper's Annapolis bureau, and later covered higher education.Just prior to her "Reliable Source" appointment in 2005, she covered the West Coast for the Post's National staff as Los Angeles bureau chief.