Sam Ro
As seen in:
TKer,
MSN,
Business Insider,
Financial Times,
Markets Insider,
MSN España,
Yahoo News,
Yahoo News Malaysia,
Yahoo News New Zealand,
Yahoo Singapore,
Aol
and
Covers:
Stock Market, U.S. Economy, Investing
Award-winning writer of @TKerLLC, the newsletter about how the stock market usually goes up. 36k+ subs. Long-term optimist. Short-term cautious optimist.
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Newsletter writer at Forbes.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes.
How is social media changing news?
News is now driven by the story, not the media brand.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
April O'Neal
What does it mean to be a journalist?
Being a journalist means being entrusted to tell a story fairly and accurately.
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Email with a clear subject line.
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Twitter
What's your favorite social network?
Twitter
Why did you become a journalist?
Because I like writing about the stock market.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
No.
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
The truth about the stock market in 16 simple charts
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
If you think it's easy, then you're doing it wrong.
When's the best time to pitch you?
Afternoon
What's the best pitch you ever got?
Any time the subject emails or calls me directly.
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
It's a tie between emails with ambiguous subject lines or greetings to someone that's not me.
What's your favorite drink?
Bourbon neat.
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
A bar, a park, a beach, or somewhere else I can be with friends or family.
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That stocks are too risky.
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