Jared Olson on Muck Rack

Jared Olson

San Pedro Sula
As seen in: Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera English, Substack, VICE, Foreign Policy Magazine, The Intercept, The Nation, The New Republic, Los Angeles Review of Books, Truthdig and
Covers:  Human rights, violence, social movements, the environment, militarization, migration. I also write literary essays and translate.
•Writer, investigative journalist •Correspondent for @AFP for Mexico and Central America •investigations/essays/reportage: @theintercept @thebafflermag etc
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What's your favorite social network?

None, I'm trying to focus better for presence and reading. If I had to choose though: instagram.

Why did you become a journalist?

To use a love of writing to tell meaningful stories of suffering and social struggle.

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

Put yourself out there in the thick of it, take risks, and most of all: read before you write.

When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?

Reading. Or working out.
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