Frank Bures
Verified
(He/Him)
As seen in:
The New York Times,
Yahoo Life,
BBC Travel,
Business Insider,
The Atlantic,
Quartz,
Scientific American,
Slate,
South China Morning Post,
VICE
and
Covers:
Culture, language, science, narrative, belief, travel, Africa, running, ultrarunning, bicycling, nature, bicycling, canoeing, outdoors, creativity, writing, arts, hidden histories, mob psychology
Doesn't Cover:
Luxury travel, news, short-term trends like manscaping.
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Typing obituaries.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes.
How is social media changing news?
For the worse.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Kermit the Frog
What does it mean to be a journalist?
To question your own assumptions and try to look beyond them.
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
x
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
x
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Scrivener, Small recorder, Internet-blocking software
What's your favorite social network?
The one in the real world.
Who do you wish followed you?
Anyone who wants to.
Why did you become a journalist?
Seemed like an interesting life.
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?
Test Day, A Mind Dismembered, Runner Interrupted, Fall of the Creative Class, Dead Cold 1 & 2
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Work hard, hope for the best, have fun with the process.
When's the best time to pitch you?
x
What's the best pitch you ever got?
x
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
Almost every luxury travel pitch. Please don't send!
What's your favorite drink?
Martini
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
Reading, outside, running, with family, with friends, sitting on the porch with a drink.
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
Harper's, The New Yorker, Outside, GQ, Ultrarunning
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
X
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