Dave McCombs
Tokyo
As seen in:
Apple Events,
Medium,
UOL,
Bloomberg Businessweek,
Bloomberg Markets Magazine,
Bloomberg News,
Reuters,
The Economic Times,
Yahoo Finance,
Chicago Tribune
and
Covers:
Asian telecom, media and technology companies. Corporate governance, corporate folklore, sports business as relates to tennis, Naomi Osaka, Kei Nishikori and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Doesn't Cover:
The waterfront
Business and financial news editor Retweets are not endorsements. Opinions are my own.
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Copy editor at Brentwood Publishing in Santa Monica, CA
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Way too much time on a typewriter as a college student, then as a free-lancer before the computer age. Three pitch letters = 6 hours, at best
How is social media changing news?
Smart journalists are using it for both quick and dirty AND in depth research on how ordinary readers perceive and react to news coverage.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Maggie Jordan (Alison Pill) The Newsroom
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Bloomberg!
Who do you wish followed you?
Matt Winkler
Why did you become a journalist?
To get into rock shows for free.
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
A piece on women in L.A. street gangs I wrote in 1986 for the L.A. Times. They spiked it, then sold it for five times their fee to Elle
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Good reporting makes good writing easy. Very unfortunately, the reverse does not apply.
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