Syed Murtaza
Lahore
As seen in:
Medium,
Wiley Online Library,
arXiv,
SAGE Publishing,
Thrive Global,
NewsBreak,
Psychiatric Annals,
Psychiatric Times,
Pakistan Today,
WFMZ-TV (Allentown, PA)
and
Covers:
Religion, Politics, Economics, Literature, Art, Performance, the Environment, Philosophy etc
Doesn't Cover:
Sports I guess :P
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Pakistan Today post A-Levels.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
No
How is social media changing news?
Any idiot like me, who can write, can write.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Does Malcolm Gladwell count? Never read him though. James Baldwin.
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Email me. muhammad747murtaza@gmail.com
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Chrome, Windows, Mac OSX
What's your favorite social network?
Instagram.
Who do you wish followed you?
Bill Gates.
Why did you become a journalist?
I had nothing better to do.
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
The one on China and Winnie the Pooh.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Keep writing. Never stop. Everything worthwhile takes time and patience.
What's your favorite drink?
Rooh Afza with a little bit of TD.
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
In my mind somewhere.
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
Fiction. Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Plath, Walcott etc
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That I don't make them myself.
Would you like to take the Muck Rack Interview?
Create a Muck Rack profile.