Betsy Ladyzhets on Muck Rack

Betsy Ladyzhets

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New York
As seen in: The Sick Times, Medium, MSN, MSN Australia, MSN Canada, Daily Mail, MSN South Africa, TIME, USA Today, Yahoo News, Newsweek and
Covers:  Science, Environment, Health, Lifestyle
journalist, editor/co-founder @thesicktimes | she/her/🏳️‍🌈 | better ways to contact me these days: betsy@thesicktimes.org, betsyladyzhets.25 on signal
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Interview

What was your first job as a journalist?

Daily Editor at Bwog

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Katherine Plumber (Newsies)

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

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/census-2020-race-history

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

Practice storytelling in unconventional formats.

When's the best time to pitch you?

Noon on a Monday

What's the worst pitch you ever got?

n/a

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

The Atlantic
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