Max Muth
Verified
As seen in:
Süddeutsche Zeitung,
Medium,
Der Tagesspiegel,
Bayerischer Rundfunk,
Flipboard,
The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA),
Golem.de,
Tages Anzeiger,
Basler Zeitung,
Falter,
Der Bund
and
Covers:
foreign policy, music, middle east, investigative reporting, media, politics, internet freedom, world news, sports, social media, internet culture
Doesn't Cover:
celebrities, beauty
Journalist interested in fraud and other fun stuff / reluctantly back because of network effects / Pelicans fan / formerly @maksumuto
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Music journalist at a student radio
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes.
How is social media changing news?
By making news cycles shorter. By changing distribution. By enabling everyone to tell stories.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Journalists don't tend to be portrayed as likeable people. I like some actual journalists though.
What does it mean to be a journalist?
What does mean mean? Journalism at its best is about telling good stories, which otherwise wouldn't have been told.
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
#exbenedict ? although I had to google what it meant...
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
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What tools and software do you use to do your job?
A computer, a telephone, a camera, a browser, a proxy service
What's your favorite social network?
Twitter
Who do you wish followed you?
thousands
Why did you become a journalist?
Because it's the one job I could become really good at and being a rock star didn't work out
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
editor, but I won't count that. I was in it for I don't know what and I was very young
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
A well crafted one hour radio feature on the coaching industry and a feature on a syrian activist in Munich.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
do it
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