Patrick Scott on Muck Rack

Patrick Scott

  • Head of Data Journalism, Office for National Statistics (ONS)
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Covers:  data journalism, television, film, music, social media, hackney, board games, online presence
Data journalism/viz projects @ONS. Used to do data journalism for New Statesman, Telegraph, Reach.

Interview

What was your first job as a journalist?

Editing The Woosta Source

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Peter Parker - He's Spiderman for goodness sake.

What's your favorite social network?

Twitter - there are so many uses for it.

Why did you become a journalist?

I became a journalist after volunteering to editor my college newsletter whilst at Oxford University. I really enjoyed it and went from there

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