Jemma Blythe
(She/Her)
Covers:
Mental Health, Personal Development, LGBTQ+ Lifestyle, Mindset and Feminism
Mentor to women who’ve survived hell 🔥 Queer, fierce, & building futures from the ashes. 💜 Writer 💛 Streamer 🏳️🌈
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Setting myself up and building a platform on Medium.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Once as a child and I loved it!
How is social media changing news?
Social Media is leveraging the need for speed within journalism to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to releasing breaking news.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Jane Sloan from The Bold Type
What does it mean to be a journalist?
Living for the next story and talking to different people who you can help each day.
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
It's got to be
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
By email or phone and it needs to be done enthusiastically to show passion for the article.
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
I use Evernote, Grammarly and Google Docs mainly.
What's your favorite social network?
My favourite has to be Instagram or Twitter
Who do you wish followed you?
Arianna Huffington and of course Oprah
Why did you become a journalist?
The need to give others and myself a voice, after feeling as though I had been silenced for no reason at all. I want to give others a voice.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
I made notes whenever there was a new story to type, I was always the note taker
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
I am most proud of the latest articles that I have submitted to publications on the Medium platform.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Try and Try again, never give up and carry on reading as it does help.
When's the best time to pitch you?
In the evenings any day of the week, I'm always free to type a good article.
What's the best pitch you ever got?
I haven't received a pitch yet, I've proposed many but never received one.
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
I haven't received a pitch yet.
What's your favorite drink?
Give me a good coffee any day of the week!
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
Reading a book somewhere soaking up more information.
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
Illumination publication on Medium as there are such a wide variety of stories.
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That I don't read or follow the news very closely.
Would you like to take the Muck Rack Interview?
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