David Bowers on Muck Rack

David Bowers

Somerset
As seen in: Financial Times, Washington Post Opinions, Baltimore Sun, Daily Business Review, Roanoke Times, SussexWorld, MYmovies, WSLS-TV (Roanoke, VA), Bristol Herald Courier, GRIT and
Covers:  travel, sport
Journalist, radio mush, PR luvvie, cynic, grumbler. Family, footie, comedy, life. Pompey boy now living in Somerset. Opinions my own, not those of my employer.
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Interview

What was your first job as a journalist?

Submitting sports reports for a local free-sheet when I was just 16. Two years later I was writing an entire World Cup supplement.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

PSmith

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

By email. Times have changed and everything now needs to stand up commercially too ...

What's your favorite social network?

Twitter

Who do you wish followed you?

Anybody who values editorial integrity

Why did you become a journalist?

I could turn a phrase or two and I was nosey

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

Have something on which to fall back; the money is not great unless you create a niche for yourself.
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