Samuel Gebre
Ādīs Ābeba Āstedader
As seen in:
CNN,
CNN International,
Medium,
MSN,
UOL,
Bloomberg Businessweek,
Bloomberg Markets Magazine,
Bloomberg News,
Bloomberg Radio,
The Economic Times
and
Covers:
Business, Climate, Politics, Migration, Human Rights, Technology
ex-Bloomberg Africa reporter now drinking and talking about coffee | (re)tired engineer.
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Stringer
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes. I must have.
How is social media changing news?
It brings news and opinion to the masses at an alarming fast rate.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Move on people.
What does it mean to be a journalist?
Voice of the people.
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Give me the facts and the twist, but I don't get pitched often.
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
FT and The Economist
What's your favorite social network?
Twitter, wait, YouTube. Twitter.
Who do you wish followed you?
Why did you become a journalist?
I almost stumbled upon it after Engineering. Curiosity and need to tell our stories.
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?
Obama's visit to Kenya and I am working on a migration story of East Africans.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Hard work and curiosity are key.
When's the best time to pitch you?
Anytime. All the time.
What's the best pitch you ever got?
Every politician is corrupt.
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
I don't get enough to pitches.
What's your favorite drink?
Ethiopian coffee?!
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
On a phone.
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
Did I not answer that? FT and the Economic
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
Business is boring.
Would you like to take the Muck Rack Interview?
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