Who's behind the news?
Who's behind the news?
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The Washington Post—I try to look at it everyday. I really like the Post’s editorials and op-eds. And of course the Boston Globe. I’m addicted to the Boston Herald. I go through it everyday, ever since I was a kid. The sports reporting is really good, the journalism is really good. And it was also easier to take on the train to school, whereas the Globe is a broadsheet and it falls apart.
Always make sure you spell peoples’ names correctly.
Always be on time. I’m always late for everything.
Yes. It’s still a good source of news. A lot of official sources still use X, like fire departments and police. There’s a lot of toxic, terrible things on there, but that’s our job— we sift through toxic, terrible things all the time. And it’s a great way to reach people who we wouldn’t be able to otherwise. I’m a firm believer that the more people can see us, the better.
I did an interview with this guy, Ben Ferencz, who was the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials. To get to tell that story and talk to someone who actually stood in the concentration camps was such an honor. And I’m not the only person to interview him, but one of the things we can do as journalists is we can remind the audience of the stories that have been told, the terrible things that have happened. That’s really important.
Gay Talese would be really fun. Dean Baquet would be really cool. I don’t think anyone would want Woodward and Bernstein digging into their lives but that would be really cool.
I think I would just wander around looking for interesting people. I wrote a story about Barry Clifford, the only guy in history to find real pirate treasure. I want to write more about him.
I drink a lot of coffee. I watch a lot of Netflix. It’s been more difficult to stay sane since the pandemic because I’ve been working from home. Not going into the office and seeing people was really tough. When I’m not working then I try to stay as busy as possible. And when I am working I try not to overdo it.
A small cold brew with cream, no sugar (I’m trying to be healthy).
I wish it paid more. There used to be a time where you could work for one newspaper and you could spend your whole career there. And that doesn’t happen anymore. I feel like a lot of that stability is gone.
The emergence of AI. That seems like it's gonna totally upend everything.
Maggie Haberman for sure, especially with the election coming up. She was the Trump wizard. David Remnick. Shelley Murphy at the Boston Globe is a phenomenal journalist. She is utterly amazing.
Put me down for all of them!
We get sent a lot of books to review. I found this one by Albert Woodfox called Solitary. It’s about this guy who got sent to Angola prison and was in solitary for 40 years. Angola prison was called the bloodiest prison in the south— it was built on an old slave plantation. While I was reporting on this book, what blew my mind was the prisoners would have to pick cotton and tobacco, like the slaves did. So looking into this story and seeing how these things happen, even in the 60s and 70s, that blew my mind.
Keyboard 100 percent. I couldn’t live without it. I don’t know how people used to do journalism on typewriters.
No, not really. I’m always scared I’m gonna find a typo. I’m always terrified I’ll be like “why did I write that that way?” I like to bask in the glow without having to ever think about it again.
So my desk right now is my kitchen table. My laptop, notebook, lots of dirty napkins (I gotta take care of those), books, an article on John Fetterman from the New Yorker. I’m sure I have my digital voice recorder on there somewhere for when I need it.
Journalism is good. I’ve got friends who I talk to after major events, and they start to believe these crazy conspiracy theories. But the reason people are so susceptible to that is because they’re getting news from TikTok or from Andrew Tate and people like that. People don’t believe journalists anymore, because they live in these silos.
Depends on the story. If I’m interviewing someone really interesting, then the research will be really good. But then the writing will be good too.
Depends on who gets shot, or stabbed, or whose house burns down. That’s breaking news, right? Broader, for my career, I don’t know. The industry is changing so much that, a year from now, we all might not have jobs. But something that I always like to tell people is that, even if you have to step away from journalism, you can always come back. The more documentaries I watch on Netflix, the more I think they’d be fun to do.
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