What was your first job as a journalist?
Community Reporter
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Nope
How is social media changing news?
It has its good and bad sides. Good side in that eyewitnesses can post events online got journalists to scavenge; and, bad in the aspect of it unverified news gaining popularity.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
David Doyle
What does it mean to be a journalist?
Speaking for the voiceless
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
By e-mail or twitter
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Google Docs
What's your favorite social network?
Twitter
Who do you wish followed you?
Becky Anderson
Why did you become a journalist?
To tell untold stories
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?
Heavy Flood
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
To focus on human interest stories
When's the best time to pitch you?
5:00AM
What's the best pitch you ever got?
A story on rape and drug abuse
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
Doing a story on a dilapidated road around Isuti in Alimosho LGA
What's your favorite drink?
Water
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
Counselling teenagers
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
Forbes, Reuters
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That I love sad and ugly stories
