Celeste Headlee on Muck Rack

Celeste Headlee

(She/Her)
Rockville, Washington, D.C.
As seen in: Women Amplified, Apple Podcasts, Next Big Idea Club Podcast, Trending News (Podcast), slideshare.net, Medium, MSN, HuffPost, Scribd, The Guardian, CNBC and
Writer, journalist, speaker. She/her. Black/Jewish. On Piscataway land. Detroit stan 4ever. Latest book: shorturl.at/dux56 Press-ashley@triple7pr.com
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Arts and culture reporter for KNAU

Have you ever used a typewriter?

I use a manual typewriter every day

What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?

#careerendingtwittertypos

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Email

Who do you wish followed you?

Viola Davis

Why did you become a journalist?

Originally, it was because I needed the job.

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

Nope

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

Big Sugar podcast

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

Never turn down free training

When's the best time to pitch you?

Weekday afternoons

What's the best pitch you ever got?

The Detroit Zoo becoming the first major zoo to give up its elephants

What's the worst pitch you ever got?

For a book about irradiated squirrels and the terror they unleashed on a community

What's your favorite drink?

Tea

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

Walking my dog
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