Arturo Conde on Muck Rack

Arturo Conde

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New York
Journalist. Managing Editor @SmartAsset. Former editor: @CallistoMedia, @TheBalance. Ex director @NACLA. Galician, Spanish and Latinx. Alum @Columbiajourn.

Interview

How is social media changing news?

Compels journalists to think of stories in different time frames and spaces.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Email

What's your favorite social network?

Twitter for tracking people and stories.

Who do you wish followed you?

Anyone interested in the topics I cover.

Why did you become a journalist?

To learn more about the world we live in.

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

Senior editor, reporter.

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

All of my immigration and political profiles.

When's the best time to pitch you?

Anytime.

What's your favorite drink?

I accept bribes in the form of tall dark beers.

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

Harper's, NYRB, New Yorker, NYT, Washington Post, NPR, El País, Diario Público, La Voz de Galicia...

What's the most common misperception about your beat?

That a topic is old or that it has been over-reported.

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