Brian Wallace on Muck Rack

Brian Wallace

  • Contributor, HackerNoon
  • Contributor, Freelance
  • Founder, NowSourcing
  • Contributor, WebProNews
  • None, Freelance, HackerNoon, WebProNews
  • None, Hacker Noon
Cincinnati
As seen in: HackerNoon, WebProNews, LinkedIn, Medium, HuffPost, PLOS, VICE, International Business Times (U.S.), VentureBeat, Business 2 Community, Business Standard, Search Engine Journal and
Founder @NowSourcing #infographics | Google Small Biz Advisory Board @GoogleSmallBiz, @SXSW| Feat: NYT, Forbes, Mashable | Mentor, husband, father, giver.
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Interview

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Taking a moment to see what I'm interested in vs a 5 paragraph spam pitch

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

Muckrack, Twitter, LinkedIn

What's your favorite social network?

LinkedIn

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

no

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

https://hackernoon.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-linkedin-60c1161a117f

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

Start small and don't be discouraged not writing for the world's largest publications from the start

When's the best time to pitch you?

EST business hours

What's the worst pitch you ever got?

When mail merge didn't even put in my name

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

The Skimm

What's the most common misperception about your beat?

People don't take enough time to look at what I'm writing about or interested in lately
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