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Ed Burmila

Chapel Hill
As seen in: Color Research & Application, The Washington Post, Yahoo News, Educational Studies, Rolling Stone, Yahoo, Deadspin, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Nation, RealClear Politics and
Book: boldtypebooks.com/titles/ed-burm… rep: @garymmorris
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What was your first job as a journalist?

The first thing I ever published was a freelance piece in Rolling Stone, not counting things published in academic journals.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Howard Kurtz

What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?

Hashtags are never humorous.

Who do you wish followed you?

Thomas Frank

What story are you most proud of writing or working on?

A weird Baffler piece about nuclear survival during the Cold War.
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