What was your first job as a journalist?
White paper about networking.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yup. Back in the day.
How is social media changing news?
Badly.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Olaf Stapledon
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Email.
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
MS Office, Photoshop, Lightroom, Davinci Resolve, Google Keep, Windows Sticky Notes, Camtasia, Calumet 4x5, Mamiya RB67, Canon EOS cameras
What's your favorite social network?
I prefer phone calls.
Why did you become a journalist?
Writing was my first best experience, and there are many stories to be told.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
Nope.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Write, write, write. Read, read, read. Find an additional expression for art.
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
Behind a camera or with a flamenco guitar.
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
Right now? In Memory of David's Buick, a novel by Bob Saar.
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
Technology will solve the world's problems that humans created. It won't.
