What was your first job as a journalist?
City reporter, 5-day daily.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Nice age-discriminating question.
How is social media changing news?
Generally for the worse.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Tony Hillerman's dead. Don't read a lot of fiction.
What does it mean to be a journalist?
Better than being at 7-Eleven on pay.
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
Most of them.
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
With lots of Ben Franklins
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Mac, InDesign, Photoshop, Canons.
What's your favorite social network?
Twitter lets me, or focuses me, to be the most sarcastic.
Who do you wish followed you?
Mainstream liberals. Maybe Dem Party & its apparatchiks would get better.
Why did you become a journalist?
Lack of better job options, no Peter Principles on horizon.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
Elementary school paper, plus college paper & yearbook.
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
Investigative piece that brought CDC to my city. Doing so incl working a few shoals betw it & state health dept, plus fighting 7-day metro
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Don't. It's not that liberal outside of 2 hot-button social issues & headed downhill.
When's the best time to pitch you?
Anytime. Ask me to do alt-left news, comparative religion, non-New Atheism.
What's the best pitch you ever got?
None. I'm a community newspaper working stiff who's never gotten Peter Principle lucky.
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
NA
What's your favorite drink?
Battery acid with an Everclear chaser.
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
Hiking, walking, taking pictures, reading non-fiction, cooking.
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
Counterpunch
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
NA
