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Interview

What was your first job as a journalist?

WHYY TV Philadelphia news and commerce: coverage of Vuce President Agnew with 2 arrifkex cams and fighting NBC for power outlet and access

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes before the first wordprocessors arrived. A microphone was my key tool.

How is social media changing news?

Placng awful pressure on the language and the beauty of find prose. Audio and image many sic

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

None my favourites were all real. Many died.

What does it mean to be a journalist?

To be lean and nosey for a story. To treat ideas and info with care.

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

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Directly at my connections in LinkedIn or twitter or at my email address. Not interested in breaking news, but well based ideas and copy.

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

IPad, PC. Mini recorder note book and sketch book borrowed video

What's your favorite social network?

Twitter

Who do you wish followed you?

Other journalists and criics who are cultural-item keen; open to reseaching and writing stories with news value as it once was.

Why did you become a journalist?

Always loved finding stories and telling them to others as a service and information source since preschool

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

Yes. The Cry a wall newspaper in 3A wrote concieved and published on classroom wall weekly

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

The recovery and rebuurial of The Lone Ausyralian

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

Fight the word counters and key word junkies. it's the story stupid????

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