Hector Perla
San Diego
Covers:
Criminal Law, Constitutional Rights, Immigration, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Citizenship, Power, Rule of Law, International Relations, Latin America.
🇸🇻 🇺🇸 Trial Attorney/Deputy Public Defender | Author | Advocate for the Accused & Incarcerated. Writing on Law, Due Process, Human Rights, and Power.
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Op-Ed.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
no
How is social media changing news?
More of it
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Mikael Blomkvist from The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo.
What does it mean to be a journalist?
To write, to speak, to tell the truth
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Email.
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Computer
What's your favorite social network?
Tik Tok
Who do you wish followed you?
My dad.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
No.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Write.
When's the best time to pitch you?
anytime
What's the best pitch you ever got?
MSNBC On Unaccompanied Minors
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
NA
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
Beach.
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
PBS
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
Public Defender's aren't real attorneys
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