Catherine Bouris
Verified
(She/Her)
As seen in:
The Daily Beast,
Medium,
MSN,
Yahoo Entertainment,
Yahoo Canada,
Yahoo News Australia,
Yahoo News Malaysia,
Yahoo News New Zealand,
Yahoo News UK,
Yahoo Singapore,
Metro (UK)
and
Covers:
News, entertainment, social issues, politics, online culture, travel.
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Freelance reporter at Sydney's Star Observer!
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Lois Lane.
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Via email.
Who do you wish followed you?
Jiminy Cricket.
Why did you become a journalist?
I have an obsessive need to be right and I love knowing everybody's business.
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
The pieces I've done on unpaid internships in Australia or the investigative series I did on transphobic radical feminist online communities.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Don't limit yourself - try and be knowledgeable about a broad range of topics, and work on building a variety of skills.
What's your favorite drink?
Lemon, lime and bitters or a gin and tonic.
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
New York Magazine.
Would you like to take the Muck Rack Interview?
Create a Muck Rack profile.