What was your first job as a journalist?
High school paper.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes. Typing 101 in Junior High:
How is social media changing news?
It removes nuance and creates polarization. Disaster.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
I don't have one favorite fictional journalist as I take books and reading close to heart. I could give a top 10. Maybe.
What does it mean to be a journalist?
I'm not really a journalist per se. I write as an expert on climate<>gender<>space. I don't report news, I create it.
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
I don't read .
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
email
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
My brain and a laptop.
What's your favorite social network?
reading books that are real and not digital dot com
Who do you wish followed you?
No one.
Why did you become a journalist?
I am not a journalist per se.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
I did. I was a reporter for some time.
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
That's like asking me to pick my favorite Bordeaux. Impossible because they're all so good in different ways.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Read, read, read. Write, pitch, repeat.
When's the best time to pitch you?
Before your third margarita.
What's the best pitch you ever got?
I believe you meant received.
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
I believe you mean received.
What's your favorite drink?
Where am I? What time of year? Who am I with? What time of day?
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
Edinburgh, Paris, Geneva, Bangkok... I travel a great deal.
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
Without a doubt, the FT.
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
Feminists hate men. <Wrong>
