What was your first job as a journalist?
Political cartoonist.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes. Many times.
How is social media changing news?
Creating a ricochet effect where people seek deeper stories.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Peter Parker
What does it mean to be a journalist?
To be a truth seeker who can report the story with literary grace and broad accessibility.
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
By text.
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Ulysses, Evernote.
What's your favorite social network?
X..com
Who do you wish followed you?
Victor Davis Hanson
Why did you become a journalist?
I became a writer because of my calling as a Presbyterian minister, aiming to uncover the real issues beneath surface problems and find the truth.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
No.
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
Researching and revealing the roots of the secular age.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
When making an assertion, be ready to cite authoritative primary sources. No unnamed sources allowed.
When's the best time to pitch you?
10:00 AM.
What's the best pitch you ever got?
Do an in-depth story on the doctrine of predestination in under 1,000 words.
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
We need a story on an exorcism today!
What's your favorite drink?
Diet Coke.
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
Watercolor painting while I watch film noir from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
American Spectator.
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That religion is an outlier, not in the main.
