Ron Harris
Verified
As seen in:
Associated Press,
LinkedIn,
MSN,
MSN Canada,
MSN UK,
The New York Times,
Yahoo Entertainment,
Yahoo Life,
Bloomberg Businessweek,
HuffPost,
The Independent (UK)
and
Covers:
Various
Doesn't Cover:
Curling. Yet.
Journalist. Filmmaker. Writer. Editor. Photographer. Root beer float drinker. Guitar slinger. @AP
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Editorial assistant at the San Francisco bureau of The AP.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes. Several.
How is social media changing news?
News moves fast. Social media, used smartly, can put you in the right direction quickly. Traditional reporting still key. Sorry kids.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Ned Scott, from "The Thing from Another World." (1951).
What does it mean to be a journalist?
Hard work and no fibbing.
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
E-mail. DM on Twitter is also fine.
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Photoshop, Premiere, FCP, AI, Chrome Dev tools, Audacity, Eclipse, Sublime, R, TweetDeck, FF plugins, DSLRs, GoPro, Arduinos, paper/pen.
What's your favorite social network?
Twitter. (via TweetDeck Version 0.38.1, circa 2010, not the new, blue janky one.)
Who do you wish followed you?
Heck, I don't know. Elisha Cuthbert?
Why did you become a journalist?
I don't know that I've `become' anything. I have a job. I like it. I do it.
Would you like to take the Muck Rack Interview?
Create a Muck Rack profile.