Tommy Gardner
Verified- News Editor and Staff Writer, VTCNG
- Editor, The Citizen - VT
- Editor, News and Citizen
- Editor, The Other Paper
- None, News & Citizen,Stowe Reporter
Morrisville
News editor and staff writer at the Vermont Community Newspaper Group. vtcng.com.
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Correspondent for The Hardwick Gazette
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Ron Burgundy
Why did you become a journalist?
To write about what I'm curious about.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
No.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Be curious and be empathetic.
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
In the woods.
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
NYTimes
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That it's divorced from other beats.
Would you like to take the Muck Rack Interview?
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