Lynsey Barber
Verified
As seen in:
Cosmetics Business,
HPCi Media,
Medium,
Business Insider,
The Sun,
WIRED (UK),
WIRED Magazine,
The Daily Telegraph,
The Herald Sun,
City A.M.,
The Advertiser (South Australia),
PR Week
and
Covers:
Business, technology, digital, media, finance, economics.
Journalist. No longer here. Find me on Instagram or LinkedIn
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Editorial assistant at M&M Global.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Never.
How is social media changing news?
It's dictating the news agenda more and can uncover unheard stories.
What does it mean to be a journalist?
Telling people something they don't know.
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Call me.
Why did you become a journalist?
To write about interesting things.
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
Looking through public records of government lobbying via all-party group, to find that lobbyists are not the biggest groups involved.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Call yourself a journalist, not an aspiring one. Understand digital publishing.
When's the best time to pitch you?
Afternoon. Never on Tuesday.
Would you like to take the Muck Rack Interview?
Create a Muck Rack profile.