What was your first job as a journalist?
A weekly column at Snooth
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes
How is social media changing news?
Excellent short format pieces and sound bites to lure people into the bigger story.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Clark Kent
What does it mean to be a journalist?
To be true to yourself and your reader before anyone else.
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
FAKENEWS
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
e-mail
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Macbook, GoPro and Samsung Galaxy
What's your favorite social network?
Facebook
Who do you wish followed you?
My children
Why did you become a journalist?
Writing in my spare time for myself, then starting a blog and writing small columns. Ten years later, Voilà.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
No
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
"Following Monprivato Through the Ages" is My first real piece of investigative journalism, IMO.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Write for the love of it. If that doesn't get you where you want to go then it's not the business for you.
When's the best time to pitch you?
After a hard workout
What's the best pitch you ever got?
Creating a print-version, photos and editorial, coffee table-style wine catalog in a time of digital media.
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
Too many to count
What's your favorite drink?
Water, Wine and Bone broth. In that order
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
The Gym or Cycling outdoors
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
I'm a bigger fan of Fiction
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That it's a lavish lifestyle full of fine dining and drinking the greatest wines in the world.
