Dawn Ennis
Verified
(She/Her)
As seen in:
LinkedIn,
Medium,
MSN,
UOL,
Yahoo Entertainment,
Yahoo Life,
Forbes,
HuffPost,
USA Today,
Yahoo Canada
and
Covers:
Roanoke, Southwestern Virginia, Virgnia, LGBTQ+, gender, women, sports, transgender, law, entertainment, business, travel, Connecticut, NYC, Boston, Ireland, London, Chicago, Los Angeles, Charlotte
Doesn't Cover:
Sushi. I hate sushi.
✡ @fox61 @uofhart Professor, Mom Previously @thedailybeast @ctvoicemag @losangelesblade @outmagazine @startrek @Forbes @advocatemag @abc @nbcnews @cnn @cbs
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Operating the vidifont (ancestor to chyron) at CNN.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes
How is social media changing news?
By connecting everyone, enabling more people to become their own cub reporters, editors, and audience.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Lois Lane
What does it mean to be a journalist?
To seek the truth, to tell the stories and in telling them, find meaning.
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Email or FB.
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Computer, iPhone, pen, paper, brain (not in that order).
What's your favorite social network?
Facebook.
Who do you wish followed you?
My sister. Because she followed me all those years ago when we were kids, why did she stop?
Why did you become a journalist?
To learn stories and be the one telling them.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
Editor, writer, editorial cartoonist
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
My own.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Get a real job. But seriously, don't do this unless you must.
When's the best time to pitch you?
24/7 except when I'm with my kids.
What's the best pitch you ever got?
A wanna-be TV news producer showed up uninvited for a writing test and blew me away with his natural talent.
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
Every PR person who used the word "amazing" or got my name wrong.
What's your favorite drink?
Jed Steele's Shooting Star Merlot.
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
With my kids.
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
Sunday NYT
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That it's all about white gay men or all about trans women.
Would you like to take the Muck Rack Interview?
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