Gareth Macdonald on Muck Rack

Gareth Macdonald

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Interview

How is social media changing news?

Reporting now is about substantiating and contextualizing rumors circulating on social media, not breaking news.We must provide the ‘so what'

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Cal McCaffrey

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Over lunch

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

Telephone, contact book, twitter, tweetdeck, twitterfall, google reader, diggo, audacity, laptop, dictaphone.

What's your favorite social network?

Twitter or renren, although I'm pretty new to the latter.

Why did you become a journalist?

Indoor work with no heavy lifting
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