Emma Athena on Muck Rack

Emma Athena

Carbondale, Colorado
As seen in: Issuu, Substack, The Conversation, The Daily Beast, SB Nation, The Irish Times, Irish Independent, Outside Magazine, Irish Examiner, Women's Health and
Covers:  Adventure sports, environmental science, public lands politics
Independent writer + reporter + editor. Investigating a life well-lived. Se habla español. Outdoor geek. (she/ella)
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Intern, at Boulder Weekly. Everything comes full circle :)

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Memory, observation and listening... and then of course, my computer and the free voice recorder that comes on each iPhone.

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

This life isn't easy, but it's worth it.

When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?

Out on dirt trails or sandstone cliffs.

Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?

The New Yorker, Wired, the Atlantic, Atavist, all the fiction novels.
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