What was your first job as a journalist?
Assistant photographer
Have you ever used a typewriter?
When I was a child
How is social media changing news?
Immediacy
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Not fictional, my favs are real ones
What does it mean to be a journalist?
Looking for and sharing news, accurately, to the widest possible audience
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?
Lightroom, FileZilla
What's your favorite social network?
IG
Who do you wish followed you?
Lady Gaga
Why did you become a journalist?
Discovering and sharing truth
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
Editor
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
The recap of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics featured in the Wall Street Journal
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Work hard, work harder, be passionate
When's the best time to pitch you?
Midday
What's the best pitch you ever got?
I am still looking forward to read it
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
Prefer not to answer that one
What's your favorite drink?
Water...just kidding
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
behind my camera
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
Everything written by Tim Ferris
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
Photography is not about clicking on a shutter release
