Patrick Sweet
Denver, Wilmington
As seen in:
Wiley Online Library,
Delaware Online,
Scranton Times-Tribune,
The Cureus Journal of Medical Science,
Citizens Voice
Covers:
transportation, politics, crime, environmental issues, campaign finance, local government
Doesn't Cover:
consumer products, lifestyles
Trial lawyer and former journalist.
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
My first job was covering local government and myriad local issues for The Citizens' Voice in WIlkes-Barre, Pa.
What does it mean to be a journalist?
Being a journalist means being accountable to a citizenry and taking serious the duty to inform the public.
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Excel, MySQL, MS Visual FoxPro, Access, PostgreSQL, ArcGIS, Python, JavaScript.
What's your favorite social network?
Twitter.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
I worked my way up to become co-editor in chief of my high school paper.
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