Jeff Hargarten
Verified
(He/Him)
As seen in:
The Minnesota Star Tribune,
Medium,
MSN,
Yahoo News,
Aol,
Yahoo Finance,
The Mercury News,
Miami Herald,
The Star (Malaysia),
Yahoo,
Detroit News
and
Covers:
data, public safety, police accountability, elections, politics, science, technology
Doesn't Cover:
arts, entertainment, sports
A Minneapolis-based @StarTribune journalist at the intersection of data analysis, reporting, coding and design.
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
As a staff reporter for the Minnesota Daily.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
No
How is social media changing news?
It's aiding the change in how people are absorbing information, which is incidentally and by osmosis through tiny headlines and snippets.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Lois Lane
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
#nbcfail amid the Olympic 2012 television coverage in the U.S. We were all thinking it.
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Word, Gmail, Samsung Galaxy SII, laptop, Tilemill, Quantum GIS, Mapbox
What's your favorite social network?
Twitter
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
Whatever is my current one.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Don't get discouraged, always say "yes."
Would you like to take the Muck Rack Interview?
Create a Muck Rack profile.