Jack Tanner
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(He/Him)
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Freelance sports writer primarily focused on boxing and football. Formerly covered #afcb & @PooleTownFC on a daily basis.
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Submitting match reports from non-league games to a local website, South Coast Journalism.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
J. Jonah Jameson
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
With clearly personalised and targeted stories.
Why did you become a journalist?
I stumbled into it - someone asked what happened in a match they missed, and they liked my report enough they asked me to do it every week!
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Read everything and anything, and then always ask why.
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
Out watching sport
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