George Kaloudis
United States
As seen in:
MSN,
Markets Insider,
Yahoo Finance,
Yahoo Finance Canada,
Yahoo Finance Singapore,
CoinDesk,
Flipboard,
Markets Outlook,
Nasdaq,
Bitcoin Magazine
and
Author: ON SAWDUST AND BROKEN GLASS.
OUT NOW: a.co/d/0xmcOXR. πάντα ρει. mostly hyperbole
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
At CoinDesk covering Bitcoin.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
No.
How is social media changing news?
Harder to cut through the noise to find the actual news.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
I don't even know a fictional journalist?
What does it mean to be a journalist?
To bring truth to light.
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Twitter DMs.
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Uh ... Google Docs, Excel, Arc?
What's your favorite social network?
Twitter
Who do you wish followed you?
No one. Counting followers is a slippery slope.
Why did you become a journalist?
I wanted to write.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
No. I never thought I'd write anything for living, yet here I am.
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
My story about open-source development discussions at the Bitcoin 2022 conference.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Hardly in a position to provide advice, but be true to yourself and your morals.
When's the best time to pitch you?
Never.
What's the best pitch you ever got?
Not applicable.
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
Almost all of them are equally terrible. I work in a crypto-adjacent capacity ... I'm sure you can imagine.
What's your favorite drink?
Budweiser.
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
Weightlifting gym.
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
The Economist
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That we all hate the government.
Would you like to take the Muck Rack Interview?
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