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Do you face any challenges when negatively covering tech companies that you or your company use?

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How do you balance stress when it comes to deadlines?

How consistent is your daily schedule?

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What made you interested in writing the tech/business and social media beat?

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Businesses and private companies differ from governments in how public their information is, can you talk about some of the challenges that are included with that?

How do you deal with the immediacy of journalism? Particularly with the Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

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How did your experience in Central America, Mexico, and Cuba influence your perspective for the rest of your career?

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What people are the best sources to talk to in the business and economic beat?

What made you initially interested in writing for business and the economy?

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Questions for Terry Collins and Michael Kanell

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Questions for Terry Collins and Michael Kanell

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-Has reporting about social media affected the way that you use social media in your personal life?
-What is the most controversial story you've written about technology?

-How is research for business stories different than for stories in other beats?
-How often does your beat intersect with other beats while reporting? (crime, politics, technology)

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1. Is there a difference between covering economics in another country versus in the US?
2. Can you explain the process of finding data for articles?

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How has the merging industries of journalism and tech affected you personally in your career, was this a positive or negative change in your opinion?

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Terry Collins:
What advice do you have for finding stories related to the business/tech beat?

Michael Kanell:
How did you find work when you were a freelance journalist?

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How do you balance personal interest in the content and what is relevant/valuable to the public?

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1. What advice do you have for journalists covering technology?
2. How does writing about technology change as tech improves?

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-Are there specific economic topics, you find more important to cover/write about than others?
-How do you build a rapport with the business sources you reach out to? Is there a difference between building trust with them compared to other sources?

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You write about a broad range of tech, money and internet news. How do you stay informed about such a wide subject area?

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How do you seek out diverse stories and sources for your articles?

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Michael E. Kanell

1. How do you think the housing crisis of 2008 affected your career?

2. While reporting in Central America, did your emotions ever overwhelm you while covering and reporting on tragic events?

3. What was your most influential story to you?

Terry Collins

1. How has the rise of social media affected your career and your writing?

2. How does having a presence on social media help you in your Career?

3. I researched that you were the director of the National Association of Black Journalists, what advice, or experiences can you give us about being a black journalist?

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- Is there any difference you notice between how businesses are run in the south vs. where you used to report up in New England?
- Did getting a degree in history provide you with valuable historical context for research?

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When writing on Cuba, how did you gather information for your stories?

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Have social media guidelines and terms of service impacted your reporting? Do you find that it's harder to share your stories outside of USA Today if you write unfavorably about Facebook, Instagram, etc. ?