What was your first job as a journalist?
Media Matters
Have you ever used a typewriter?
No
How is social media changing news?
Social media is dying.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
No response.
What does it mean to be a journalist?
It means many things to many people.
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
Bowling Green
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Emailing me with the basics. Almost always will want to assign a reporter to interview the subject for a piece to be published.
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
A macbook air and a gmail.
What's your favorite social network?
The local bar.
Who do you wish followed you?
Cher
Why did you become a journalist?
I publish what I think will get people talking. If I walk into a bar and people are talking about what Options has written, I did it right.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
Nope
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
Writing about the Fight for $15 movement in the beginning. Too few write about issues from the workers perspectives.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Show not tell your readers.
When's the best time to pitch you?
Mornings EST
What's the best pitch you ever got?
Tell you when I get it.
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
Every long press release out there with no follow up.
What's your favorite drink?
Coffee
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
Xbox
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
Jacobin
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That LGBTQ people are all rich.
