Carolyn Sun on Muck Rack

Carolyn Sun

As seen in: MSN, MSN Canada, Business Insider, Color Research & Application, Fox News, TIME, Wiley Online Library, CNBC, NBC News, Yahoo Finance and
Fiction writer. Yaddo residency recipient. Obsessive list maker. At the loving beck and call of my son Ollie and my dog Iggy. Tetris is 4-ever.
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Interview

What does it mean to be a journalist?

It means targeting the what is meaningful and factual during a never-ending cacophony of noise.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Email or Twitter

Who do you wish followed you?

Anderson Cooper

Why did you become a journalist?

People are endlessly fascinating, and this job feeds my furnace of curiosity.

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

Ask other journalists in your niche of interest to gauge whether the life is suited for you.

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

In the dog park.

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

The New Yorker
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