Oliver Bateman
As seen in:
What's Left? Podcast,
Medium,
MSN,
Yahoo Life,
Yahoo News,
Aol,
New York Post,
The Atlantic,
Motherboard,
VICE,
Flipboard
and
Covers:
Sports, law, fitness, comic books, video games, labor, election analysis/handicapping
Doesn't Cover:
Generic hot takes, art, fashion
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Oliver Bateman’s Biography
Read Full Bio →I'm a journalist, lawyer, historian, and competitive powerlifter. I was born in Southwestern Pennsylvania, where I grew up on a farm a few miles from the West Virginia border. I attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a Johnston-Pogue Scholarship, was a Monsanto Scholar at the Valparaiso School of Law, and held an Andrew Mellon Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. Like former Rangers outfielder Kevin Mench, I wear a size 8 baseball cap. I returned to my home state in…
Oliver Bateman’s Journalist Portfolio
Interview
See all 20 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
I worked for The Daily Tar Heel, 2000-01.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes. I was trained on a typewriter where you had to manually insert the correction tape. I learned to type 125 wpm on one of those devices
How is social media changing news?
It's all takes and clickbait headlines. It sucks. "Research" is checking some celebrity's likes and unfollows