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Simon Busch on Muck Rack

Simon Busch

London
Covers:  travel technology, arts, aviation, culture, london, quirky travel, travel, hotels
Doesn't Cover: business
Head of content, former Guardian journalist and FT columnist. 'Thoughts my own' (although sometimes quite derivative).

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Simon Busch’s Biography

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I’m an editor and writer. Born in New York City, I grew up in Australia where (more or less grown up) I began contributing pieces of social commentary and opinion to newspapers such as the Australian and the Age.

At some point, someone let me loose on a microphone, and I became a radio broadcaster on the arts and society for Radio National (sister station to Radio 4), even producing and presenting the odd documentary.

Then someone also let me loose on someone else with a microphone: I wrote spe…

What was your first job as a journalist?

A columnist for the Outside Space column in the Australian.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes.

How is social media changing news?

There are now millions of "stringers" – true, of varying quality – rather than several thousand.