16: How Hustle Helped Tech Journalist Ali Breland Scale The Hill …Newspaper [Main T4C Episode]

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Ali Breland is the Technology reporter at The Hill* newspaper where he writes and reports 3-5 news stories a day. To get to where he is now, Ali cut his teeth at The Alcalde (UT Austin Alumni Magazine) as an editorial intern. Outside of that, he hustled to interview artists and celebrities for CNN, The Christian Science Monitor, and Huff Post. Ali was involved in a myriad of other odd jobs including winemaking as a Harvest intern at Patz & Hall Winery and snowboarding.  His love of journalism and technology landed him a bunch of different jobs along the way, including one at POLITICO as a web producer. Ali graduated from UT Austin with a B.A. in Plan II and minors in English and Philosophy.

*Ali left The Hill in November 2018. He is now a disinformation reporter at Mother Jones.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE:

• What a tech reporter does and how to develop sources (1:35)
• How to pick your stories to report (3:25)
• How to land a prestigious internship (Hint: at NPR) (16:40)
• What to do while you’re still in college to help land a job in journalism when you graduate (19:34)
• How to break into the journalism industry (20:30)
• Where to email stories ideas to Ali at Ali.breland@gmail.com
• Tweet to Ali at @alibreland    

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