What was your first job as a journalist?
News reporting as a campus journalist
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes
How is social media changing news?
Both positively and negatively
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
None
What does it mean to be a journalist?
It means everything. From holding people accountable to being the source that provides stories for your audience.
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Stepwisely
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Tweetdeck, Handbrake and Googledocs
What's your favorite social network?
Twitter
Who do you wish followed you?
Adrian Wojnarowski
Why did you become a journalist?
To inform, educate and reform my immediate society.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
Yes, Editor-in-Chief
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
Solutions based story
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Consistency and avoidance of sensationalism
When's the best time to pitch you?
Evening
What's the best pitch you ever got?
Factors affecting development of Students Athletes in Nigeria
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
None, yet.
What's your favorite drink?
Lime
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
On the field
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
Any solutions based story
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
Sports journalism is categorized as soft news while it belongs to hard news
