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Jennifer Strong on Muck Rack

Jennifer Strong

New York
As seen in: SHIFT PODCAST (Podcast), The Next Innovation, The Wall Street Journal, Wiley Online Library, MDPI, Heise Online, International Business Times (U.S.), JAMA Network, MIT Technology Review, MIT Technology Review Narrated, GlobeNewswire, Morningstar and
Creator of SHIFT Podcast @PRX, @WSJ’s The Future of Everything, In Machines We Trust and Curious Coincidence @techreview, Extortion Economy with @ProPublica.
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Interview

What was your first job as a journalist?

small town radio reporting on local schools

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

What does it mean to be a journalist?

To be eternally curious and an optimist, as the great, late Jim Lehrer taught me.

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Lots of Adobe

What's your favorite social network?

LinkedIn

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

Don't give up

When's the best time to pitch you?

Not sure there is one.

What's the worst pitch you ever got?

So many... but let's call any pitch that pitches exactly what I last wrote unhelpful

When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?

Outside

Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?

The Atlantic, New Yorker, BBC and WSJ
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