Jake Leonard
Verified- General Manager and Program Director, Heartland Newsfeed
- Editor In Chief, Heartland Newsfeed
- Part-time Reporter, Daily Herald
- Amazon Hub Delivery Driver, Amazon
Illinois, Missouri
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Sports reporter for the Culver-Stockton Megaphone back in 2005-06 when I was a student there.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Without hesitation: Howard Beale ("I’m as mad as hell and I’m not gonna take this anymore!" from the 1976 film Network)
Why did you become a journalist?
There's not enough unbiased journalists in this world, because everyone else have been sucked in this political bias vacuum.
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
Reason Magazine
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