What was your first job as a journalist?
Staff writer and editor at ON THE STREET, a free weekly music paper, Sydney, 1985
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes, I go waaaay back.
How is social media changing news?
I get paid to answer that one.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Rosalind Russell in the movie HIS GIRL FRIDAY.
What does it mean to be a journalist?
To be curious, honest, and persistent AF.
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Tell me who you are, what you want, by when and how long—and what it pays.
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Brain, hands, feet.
What's your favorite social network?
Gossip
Who do you wish followed you?
Morgan M Page
Why did you become a journalist?
Lack of competence at anything else.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
No, but I edited the monthly journal at university.
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
The next one.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Don't do it.
When's the best time to pitch you?
Anytime!
What's the best pitch you ever got?
Interview blues legend Brownie McGee.
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
Now that would embarrass some people...
What's your favorite drink?
A mate soda at the rave.
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
Dancing
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
eflux journal
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That anyone who watches some media can write about it.
