Jennifer Gardiner
(She/Her)
As seen in:
Nature,
NewsNation,
KDVR-TV (Denver, CO),
WFLA-TV (Tampa, FL),
KOIN-TV (Portland, OR),
KRON-TV (San Francisco, CA),
KTVI-TV (St. Louis, MO),
WJW-TV (Cleveland, OH),
KXAN-TV (Austin, TX),
WDAF-TV (Kansas City, MO)
and
Covers:
Crime, health, crisis, disasters, just about anything
Doesn't Cover:
politics
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Gephardt Daily
How is social media changing news?
For the better because we can reach a broader audience for the worse because people believe non-credible sources
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Emails work best
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Wordpress
What's your favorite social network?
Facebook
Who do you wish followed you?
Mariska Hagerty
Why did you become a journalist?
By accident but love it
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
College, didn’t know I was good at writing until 25 years after high school
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
It took time to craft being able to write but be open to constructive criticism to get better
What's the best pitch you ever got?
I’ve received many. But the best are triumph over tragedy stories
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
One sided agendas.. sales people trying to manipulate us into free advertising, and my favorite .. write about people not putting carts away
What's your favorite drink?
Iced coffee from Dunkin’ Donuts
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
Driving to deliver food to others
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
Huffington Post
Would you like to take the Muck Rack Interview?
Create a Muck Rack profile.