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Ben Kawaller on Muck Rack

Ben Kawaller

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  • Essayist, Playwright and Screenwriter, Freelance
New York
As seen in: Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan, Substack, The Times, Los Angeles Magazine, The Advocate Magazine, AllEvents, The Free Press, RacketNews
Kochleffel. @thetimes, @nypost, @thefp, @lamag & elsewhere. It means meddlesome troublemaker.
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Interview

What was your first job as a journalist?

Intern at New York Magazine

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Probably as a prop in a play

What does it mean to be a journalist?

I'm working on figuring that out for you all.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Charmingly

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Final Cut Pro, because I am in high school.

What's your favorite social network?

A dinner party hosted by a seventy-year-old woman.

Who do you wish followed you?

Crowds

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

Google people before you talk to them.

What's the worst pitch you ever got?

At a summer camp I went to there was a tone-deaf music teacher.

What's your favorite drink?

A martini. It's a shame I'll never have one again.
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