Nathan Hart
Verified
(He/Him)
As seen in:
The Columbus Dispatch,
MSN,
Yahoo Entertainment,
Yahoo Life,
USA Today,
Yahoo News,
Aol,
Yahoo Finance,
Flipboard,
Yahoo Sports,
Miami Herald
and
Covers:
Transportation, community news, environmental issues, cops and crime, elections, state politics, local politics, weather, traffic, natural disasters.
Transportation and Neighborhoods reporter @DispatchAlerts | @OhioU ‘22 alum | prev. @AshlandSource @Report4America @McClatchyDC @WCPO | tips: NHart@dispatch.com
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Statehouse News Fellow at WCPO
How is social media changing news?
Social media is driving publications to make news more trendy and clickable, sometimes to their detriment.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Peter Parker
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Adobe Premiere, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Google Workspace, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Canon DSLR
What's your favorite social network?
Twitter
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
I was originally a staff reporter and then I was the managing editor of our school's weekly TV show.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Just ask questions to everyone, all the time.
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
If I'm working, I'm probably interviewing someone or looking through documents. If I'm at home, I'm probably playing video games.
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That political reporters just make up unnamed sources and modify quotes to suit their agendas.
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