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Ali Qassim on Muck Rack

Ali Qassim

London
Covers:  Latin American environment, renewables, history, politics and economics, nineteenth-century literature, post-Brexit-related issues.

Interview

What was your first job as a journalist?

Film reviewer for "Guidepost", an English-language weekly in Madrid

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

James Dyson, a mid-level editor in Michael Frayn's Fleet Street satire called "Towards the End of the Day"

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

By email

What's your favorite social network?

Stage 32

Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?

Wrote articles on sixth form issues for school newspaper "In Focus"

What story are you most proud of writing or working on?

My investigation into political campaigning in San Miguel de Tucuman in north-eastern Argentina.

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

Don't let anyone put you off.

When's the best time to pitch you?

Anytime.

What's your favorite drink?

A mojito

When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?

Tennis court

Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?

Drama Quarterly

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