What was your first job as a journalist?
InSight Crime - pivoted from law and IR
Have you ever used a typewriter?
no. But I remember my mom typing away at one when I was six and being excited to have my own someday.
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
email. Give me a top line and a nut graf
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Zotero, pinpoint, Sonix, and reverse google image search
What's your favorite social network?
Bluesky; instagram
Why did you become a journalist?
Financial security makes me itchy
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
Definite "The Gangster Governor of Zulia: The Rise and Fall of Venezuela’s Omar Prieto"
What's your favorite drink?
red wine. manhattan. a nice scotch on the rocks. in that order
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
Cycling through the Andes
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That the underworld is run by gangsters (it's run by respectable suited money launderers and their political co-conspirators)
