Philip Ingram
- Journalist and Presenter, Freelance
- Founder and Managing Editor, Ingram's Insights
England, West Midlands
As seen in:
Ingram's Insights,
BBC,
Daily Mail,
Change.org,
Daily Express,
RT,
Sky News,
Al Jazeera English,
Audioboom,
The Irish Sun,
National Geographic Italia
and
Covers:
Intelligence, Defence, Security, Counter-Terrorism, Geo-Politics,
Doesn't Cover:
Fashion
Presenter, Ex Mil spook & planner (took over countries) - writer & broadcaster - novelist - PTSD & Cancer survivor - Times Radio, The Sun and Talk
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
The Editor of The Huma Humma Frick Frack Blatt
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes
How is social media changing news?
It is making it more important for traditional skills of fact checking to be maintained - there is too much pressure to get anything out.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Why have favourites, that's boring....
What does it mean to be a journalist?
Informing, investigating, holding officialdom to account is a real privilege
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
email or phone call or Twitter or LinkedIn, I just like being pitched
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Macbook, Canon 5D and Zoom H5, cant beat any of them...
What's your favorite social network?
Twitter
Who do you wish followed you?
Arthur Dent
Why did you become a journalist?
I am a nosey bu**er and love giving my thoughts....
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
I wrote for our annual magazine
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
Getting a 20 Min on-camera interview with Jurgen Stock - Sec Gen of INTERPOL
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
enjoy it or move on
When's the best time to pitch you?
Any time
What's the best pitch you ever got?
Chose only one?
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
Chose only one?
What's your favorite drink?
It depends on what time of the day it is.
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
Asleep
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
The one that takes my fancy at that moment
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
Everyone knows about security.... They don't its complex and to understand it you have to have done it.
Would you like to take the Muck Rack Interview?
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