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Interview

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

How is social media changing news?

It's destroying it

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Clark Kent

What does it mean to be a journalist?

Do your best writing, then watch as others who are less knowledgeable edit the crap out of it just because editors must edit

What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?

This interview is too long

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Grammarly

What's your favorite social network?

None of the above

Who do you wish followed you?

My wife

Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?

I worked in the mimeograph room in junior high

What story are you most proud of writing or working on?

Machining for Dummies

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

Find a different career

When's the best time to pitch you?

Afternoons

What's the best pitch you ever got?

The ones I didn't have to write

What's the worst pitch you ever got?

All the others

What's your favorite drink?

Beer

When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?

In the pool

Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?

I don't have my own publication

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