Chris Wilson
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and
Covers:
nerd stuf, data, politics, science, languages, elections, demographics, rhetoric, census, whimsy
Interactive columnist, Yahoo News
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Congressional Quarterly
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes, I own a Facit 1610
How is social media changing news?
Polluting it with meaningless sentiment data.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Bob Woodward
What does it mean to be a journalist?
Low wages, high sanctimony
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
I don't.
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Javascript, Python, Raphael, D3, GitHub, Cloud9IDE
What's your favorite social network?
Stack Overflow
Why did you become a journalist?
No marketable skills.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
I was the boss.
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Learn to code.
Would you like to take the Muck Rack Interview?
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