Ashlyn Wright on Muck Rack

Ashlyn Wright

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(She/Her)
Chicago
As seen in: WGN-TV (Chicago, IL), MSN, MSN Singapore, MSN UK, Yahoo Entertainment, Yahoo Life, Aol, Yahoo Finance, The Hill, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo and
Covers:  Local news, sports, entertainment, culture
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Interview

What was your first job as a journalist?

Internship with The Society of Professional Journalists

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Negative

How is social media changing news?

We have to move fast! But I think the quality suffers.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Email only

Who do you wish followed you?

Beyonce

What's the worst pitch you ever got?

Eczema cream

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

At the movie theater

What's the most common misperception about your beat?

That we're not real journalists because we only cover "fluffy" local topics
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