Lorenzo Morales
Verified
As seen in:
BBC Mundo,
El País,
The Hindu,
Semana,
ReliefWeb,
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP),
openDemocracy,
Scripps News,
The Caravan,
Dialnet - Universidad de La Rioja
and
Covers:
Armed Conflict, Environment, Corruption and Politics
Periodista / journalist. Autor de “Adentro: vida en Bogotá” y “Hechos para contar”. @cerosetenta @liganosilencio @Ceper_Uniandes
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Political reporter at revista Semana
Have you ever used a typewriter?
No
How is social media changing news?
It is interfering on the way media used to set the agenda.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Pereira (Antonio Tabuchi)
What does it mean to be a journalist?
To be anchored in the present, fist hand.
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Short, straightforward, and making evident the human or public value of the story.
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Excel, Word, Scribener...
What's your favorite social network?
Instagram
Who do you wish followed you?
Robert Fisk
Why did you become a journalist?
Because I couldn't fit doing in anything else..
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
There was no newspaper in my high school.
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
It has not been published yet.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Keep pushing
When's the best time to pitch you?
At night.
What's the best pitch you ever got?
A story a a Congressman who grabbed 7.000 hectares of public land.
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
Can't remember...
What's your favorite drink?
Old Fashioned
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
In my hammock
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
The Economist
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
You have to befriend your sources...
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