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📻Investigative Journalist, Director, Audio Program @Columbiajourn. Born at @Radiolab bylines @Marketplace @NPR @BBC Now @CrookedMedia DMs open

May 6, 2019, 9 tweets

Hey journalists- it's that time when my students are hearing about jobs & internships. I'd love share failure stories with them! To students it can seem like working reporters have never faced a failure: been rejected for a job, internship, etc! What's your #fail?

I've never aired a story on @ThisAmerLife #journalismfail!

I once left @Radiolab's shotgun mic in a taxi! (Paging @ramenshopradio!!) 😭😳😫

I missed a spot deadline at @Marketplace 😱😱😱 Luckily I was too much of a newbie to know what a big deal that was!!

I’ve had about three gazillion pitches rejected!

Ooh, I totally forgot about the time when I was producing @Slate's Culturegabfest and I somehow left in like 45 seconds of dead air. And then we got angry emails from listeners!! I offered to quit. 😪 The EP @andybowers was so nice about it and said everyone needs to learn!

Loving the vibe here! ❤️ It’s like we’re having a journalist’s party (happy hour?) - but online/virtually! Thanks all, for sharing your stories! 👌🏻🌈 📻✏️

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