Simon Chandler
Verified
As seen in:
CryptoVantage,
MSN,
MSN India,
Yahoo Life,
Business Insider,
Daily Mail,
Forbes,
HuffPost,
Yahoo News Malaysia,
Bandcamp Daily,
Fox News
and
Covers:
Technology, science, politics, finance, economics, markets, music, literature.
Doesn't Cover:
Only those topics media outlets won't assign me to cover.
Text, cntrbtr: techadvisor.com, businessinsider.com, digitaltrends.com, cryptonews.com, cryptovantage.com. Published in Wired, Forbes, TechCrunch, Bandcamp...
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Music reviewer and features writer.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
No.
How is social media changing news?
For the worse.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
N/A.
What does it mean to be a journalist?
Either you hold truth to power, or you're an apologist for power.
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
N/A.
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
N/A.
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
A computer.
What's your favorite social network?
I dislike them all. At best I can say they're necessary evils, but it's arguable that they're necessary.
Who do you wish followed you?
The general public.
Why did you become a journalist?
So I could think for a living.
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?
A story that was never published.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Keep writing. Keep pitching.
When's the best time to pitch you?
Whenever is best for you.
What's the best pitch you ever got?
N/A.
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
N/A.
What's your favorite drink?
Tea.
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
N/A
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
The London Review of Books.
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
Technology reporting is mostly about technology. This is wrong: it's mostly about society, economics, finance and politics.
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