What was your first job as a journalist?
Cub reporter for *The Charleston Gazette* a long-long-long time ago.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Boy howdy.
How is social media changing news?
Quality control and accuracy are corroding before my eyes. The post-truth era lives in our phones.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Peter Parker, I guess...
What does it mean to be a journalist?
Uncover the truth. Speak that truth to power.
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Email. Please.
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Pilot V5, thin.
What's your favorite social network?
Don't really have one.
Why did you become a journalist?
I always say that if I was as good with hammer as I am with a pen, I would have become a carpenter.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
Worked at my college paper, *The Yellow Jacket*, from Freshman year until graduation.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Persist. Resist. Insist.
When's the best time to pitch you?
Anytime...through email.
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
Ones from writers who have not read the publication before pitching.
What's your favorite drink?
Cabs. Just Cabs.
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
In a book.
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That it's easy.
