Devanshi Gupta
(She/Her)
As seen in:
Medium,
Color Research & Application,
BioRxiv,
Amar Ujala,
diaTribe,
A beginner's guide to SciComm,
IndiaBiospeaks
Covers:
Research culture, Careers in Science, Women in STEM, Mental health in academia
Doesn't Cover:
Climate change, Physics and astronomy.
Postdoc in Komander Lab at WEHI |
PhD in Maddika Subbareddy Lab at CDFD |
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Interests: Science, SciComm, Contemporary fiction & Mental Health
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Part-time communications associate
Have you ever used a typewriter?
No
How is social media changing news?
Making them click-bait and leading to false interpretations.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Jacqueline Carlyle in The Bold Type
What does it mean to be a journalist?
Provide a lens for see-through facts and observations. The lens needs to be carefully curated so that it doesn't become an opinion.
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Drop me an email
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
MS Word or Google docs does most of the work
What's your favorite social network?
It used to be Twitter, until it became a place for pushing political agenda. Now it is Instagram.
Who do you wish followed you?
I wish no one should
Why did you become a journalist?
To answer my curiosity
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
No, I didn't.
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
I think it is a work in progress. Every story I write makes me feel it is the best, until I find the next one.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Find the 'why', you'll figure out the 'how'
When's the best time to pitch you?
Usually during evening hours, at any day of the week. However, the response will most likely be on a weekend.
What's the best pitch you ever got?
Waiting for one
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
Financial growth in India
What's your favorite drink?
Lemon tea
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
In my lab, running my experiments
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
Editorials of major newspapers like The Atlantic, New Yorker etc
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
Spreading hatred and negativity towards academia
Would you like to take the Muck Rack Interview?
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