What was your first job as a journalist?
To learn what lead typesetting is.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Sure
How is social media changing news?
More interaction, closer user groups.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Ian Banks
What does it mean to be a journalist?
To keep track with the endless newsflows filtering the essentials.
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
Coq Inu
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
I usually pitch...
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Laptop, CMS, Bloomberg Terminal, Research Notes.
What's your favorite social network?
X
Who do you wish followed you?
Albert Edwards, SG
Why did you become a journalist?
The most fascinating job in the world.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
I wrote regularly about the High School renovation.
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
Get the financial mechanics about property financing in Switzerland explained in a comprehensive manner to our readers.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Don't give up, you need patience.
When's the best time to pitch you?
Early afternoon.
What's the best pitch you ever got?
Closing of a 30 million Dollar Structured Financing for a Canadian mining company.
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
Presenting a proposal for a convertible debt financing two days before the covid stock market crash in March 2020.
What's your favorite drink?
Negroni
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
In the gym or taking a walk.
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
NZZ, Zerohedge
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
I have less patience than thought.
