Josh Max
Verified
United States
As seen in:
Forbes,
The New York Times,
Yahoo Entertainment,
Yahoo News Australia,
Yahoo News Malaysia,
Yahoo News UK,
New York Daily News,
Yahoo Finance,
Yahoo Finance Canada,
Yahoo,
Yahoo Style Singapore
and
Covers:
Cars and motorcycles
Travel destinations around the planet
Road rage and road safety
Doesn't Cover:
Sports and ladies' fashion.
Journalist since age 6, doing it professionally for longer than that. NY Times, Forbes.com, NY Daily News, etc.
Interview
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes and I still have it. It belonged to my father.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Knox from "Batman."
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
If you want me to be funny, give me a cookie
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Email
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
No I didn't
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
"My first art modeling job" NY Times. It is the first Times article I've written that's light.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
When an editor not your boss says, twice, "We're not going for a Pulitzer here," tell him "You may not be, but I am."
When's the best time to pitch you?
Morning
What's the best pitch you ever got?
2013 Bugatti Vitesse
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
The misspelled phrase above is pretty bad, dudes. You might want to change it to "worst."
What's your favorite drink?
Blood. Did I say that? Damn.
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
In a car, on a bike or parked behind a Gibson J-200
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
Buns 'n' Ammo, Richard Marx Quarterly
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