What was your first job as a journalist?
Weekly Newspaper editor
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yep.
How is social media changing news?
It has blurred the line between a professional, ethical, journalist and an influencer with a cell phone.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Anyone Hunter S. Thompson invented.
What does it mean to be a journalist?
Everything.
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
EnviroManWGCU
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Email.
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
My brain, and Word.
What's your favorite social network?
LinkedIn
Who do you wish followed you?
My deceased mom.
Why did you become a journalist?
To see my byline in the newspaper.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
College paper: features editor.
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
The Beach Builders, a series on the dark side of rebuilding the nation's sandy shorelines.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Do what you love and the money will follow.
When's the best time to pitch you?
Later in the morning.
What's the best pitch you ever got?
One that indirectly allowed me to pilot a Cessna that afternoon. And another that resulted in me Bungie jumping.
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
The makers of "Urine-Off" used a blacklight to show urine on the walls of their men's bathroom. Why was there so much urine on the walls?
What's your favorite drink?
Diet Pepsi
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
In front of a different computer.
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
The New York Times
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That we are environmental advocates.
