What was your first job as a journalist?
Started as a Tech hardware specialist at Appuals.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
No
How is social media changing news?
Nobody cares about paragraph 7. Its all about the headline, for better or worse.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
No one.
What does it mean to be a journalist?
Thinking about "Why would someone click on this" is the main part of the job.
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
Not The Onion
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Not really particular about how someone pitches me a story, it just better be good.
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
A dedicated high-end gaming PC, my laptop, and my mobile phone. WordPress and other word-processing software are common in my job.
What's your favorite social network?
Twitter, or X as it is now called.
Who do you wish followed you?
Elon Musk would be pretty cool.
Why did you become a journalist?
I wanted an outlet for the expression of my passion, which is gaming and the PC hardware industry.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
No
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
Covering the integration of AI in the gaming industry has been quite interesting.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Establish a social media presence, and keep your eye on the trends.
When's the best time to pitch you?
Anytime.
What's the best pitch you ever got?
Have had some great pitches, hard to single out just one. The best pitches have one thing in common: They allow freedom of expression.
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
They keep trying to give me money that I have supposedly "won" in a gameshow.
What's your favorite drink?
Water at the right time can change your life.
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
Watching or playing football.
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
Rtings, XDA, and Jalopnik.
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
People cannot differentiate sponsored content from actual reviews, and that is mostly on the creators.
