What was your first job as a journalist?
UPI.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
I own three.
How is social media changing news?
It’s chaos with an algorithm, amplified by ai that keeps remixing the news faster than we can verify it.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Rita Skeeter?
What does it mean to be a journalist?
It means knowing your browser has 50 tabs open for research and you still think you’re missing something
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
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How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Short, sharp, and sourced.
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Google Docs, Slack, and a long list of Latin American government websites that never load on the first try.
What's your favorite social network?
The comment section of Youtube.
Who do you wish followed you?
Hmm. Erykah Badu.
Why did you become a journalist?
I became a journalist by accident and stayed because curiosity is apparently a lifelong condition.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
Nope, that's not a thing in Latin America.
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
The oceanographic expedition in the South Atlantic, CONICET streamed the entire thing and that's all I could talk about for days.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Keep asking yourself "but why?".
When's the best time to pitch you?
Night time?
What's the best pitch you ever got?
Hard to pick.
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
I'm too new.
What's your favorite drink?
Coffee.
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
In a record store.
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
I like Infobae a lot.
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That Latin America is predictable. It’s absolutely not.
