Martin Kimber
Verified
As seen in:
City A.M.,
MSN,
MSN UK,
Metro (UK),
Sky News,
Flipboard,
CityAM,
LBC,
Mail+,
Isle of Wight Radio,
Manx Radio
and
Covers:
News, politics, video games, entertainment.
Head of Video, Audio & Social @CityAM | Former award-winning business producer, @SkyNews 📺 @DailyMailUK 🗞 & @LBC 📻 丨Surrey apologist丨views my own 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Assistant producing on LBC radio
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes
How is social media changing news?
For the worse
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Rita Skeeter
What does it mean to be a journalist?
To speak truth to power
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Email
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Audacity, Adobe Audition, Adobe Premier, various different CMSs, MS Office Suite
What's your favorite social network?
Twitter
Who do you wish followed you?
Obama
Why did you become a journalist?
A love of politics primarily, which later spread to all corners of current events and media.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
nope
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Don't worry about the qualifications. Love of the topic will see you through
When's the best time to pitch you?
All the damn time
What's your favorite drink?
Camden Hells lager
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That production not broadcast journalism.
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