Patrick White on Muck Rack

Patrick White

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Toronto
As seen in: The Globe and Mail, CBC Windsor, Goodreads, Report on Business Magazine, The Decibel, Flipboard, Global News, The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), RAND Corporation, Tulsa World, Roanoke Times and
Covers:  A little of everything.
Reporter @ The Globe and Mail.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

News editor at college paper.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

April O'Neil

What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?

I really don't do social media anymore. Sorry.

Who do you wish followed you?

Nobody

Why did you become a journalist?

To get my face on Muck Rack.

Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?

My school was too small to have a newspaper.

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

Get a degree in something other than journalism.

What's the best pitch you ever got?

I'm generally the one doing the pitching

What's the worst pitch you ever got?

They're all pretty bad.

What's your favorite drink?

By measure of volume: coffee

When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?

Cooking

What's the most common misperception about your beat?

We only report on "the negative stuff."
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