What was your first job as a journalist?
Writing about wellness for my university newspaper.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Murphy Brown
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
E-mail.
Who do you wish followed you?
The Dalai Lama
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Learn to work quickly, and don't get bogged down reading every Wikipedia page on a topic as background knowledge for a 700-word article.
When's the best time to pitch you?
Weekday mornings.
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
Info on a tech conference I'd never heard of.
What's your favorite drink?
Carbonated water with lemon juice.
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
Reading on the beach.