The Muck Rack Blog

Featured journalist: Christopher Wiggins

Today’s featured journalist is Christopher Wiggins, a journalist based in the D.C. Metro area. According to him, he’s “that guy who always has ‘just one more follow-up question,’ and knows what feels like everyone.”

Wiggins covers what feels like everything so here are the things you shouldn’t reach out to him about: business, cars, gossip, food, Wall Street, books, sports, and generally anything boring. His portfolio includes: “President Obama: Be Careful Not to Catch ‘Romnesia’ from Mitt” and “Election 2012: A Day With Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Adam Cook.”

There’s also a Washington DC Stonewall Award for Community All-Star that Wiggins got in 2012, which makes sense since he believes being a journalist means: “recognizing your duty - explain a story, in context with accuracy and integrity. Appreciating the access to history and people others don’t.” Impressive, right?

Do you want to be featured? Set up your own own journalist portfolio and then let us know through delia at muckrack dot com.

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Featured journalist : Charlie Warzel

Today’s featured journalist is Charlie Warzel, deputy editor of FWD at BuzzFeed. He’s also at AdWeek writing about digital politics, the future of journalism, and online publishing (the digital media beat is really a give at this point).

Warzel’s portfolio includes, “The 140-Character-or-Less Campaign,” “Overdosing on HuffPost Live,” and “Are Table-Only Publications Dead?”

Over the weekend, he had a brilliant idea: “what if we just shut down twitter on the weekends…”

Do you want to be featured? Set up your own own journalist portfolio and then let us know through delia at muckrack dot com.

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Featured journalist: Chris Brennan

Today’s featured journalist is Chris Brennan, senior writer at the Philadelphia Daily News.

His portfolio includes, “CLOUT’S A-to-Z guide to the Republican National Convention” while his twitter quote reads: “Squirm: Now is not the time for squirming, unless of course some angry guy on TV says we should squirm if we really love America.”

Do you want to be featured? Set up your own own journalist portfolio and then let us know through delia at muckrack dot com.

Featured journalist: Danny Sullivan

Today’s featured Muck Racker is Danny Sullivan, founding editor at SearchEngineLand.com.

He covers Google, Facebook, Twitter, SEO, SEM, and all things digital marketing, search marketing and search. Since he started covering search engines in late 1995, we believe the man knows what he’s doing. 

To prove it, Sullivan’s been quoted everywhere from the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, Forbes, The New Yorker and Newsweek, and even on ABC’s Nightline.

The Orange County resident became a journalist because “I like to know about things, I’m very curious, and journalists have permission to ask and a job of explaining.” He’d appreciate it if you pitched him in the morning.

Do you want to be featured? Set up your own own journalist portfolio and then let us know through delia at muckrack dot com.

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Featured journalist:

Today’s featured journalist is Alex Murashko, church and ministry section editor with the Christian Post.

His portfolio includes, “Greg Laurie: People in Heaven Know What’s Happening on Earth,” “‘Obama’s America 2016’ Movie: If Obama Wins a Second Term, Where Will We Be?,” and “Gay Agenda in Campaign Against Chick-fil-A Not About Civil Rights?” 

Do you want to be featured? Set up your own own journalist portfolio and then let us know through delia at muckrack dot com.

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Featured journalist: Anna Tarkov

Today’s featured journalist is Anna Tarkov, a reporter with Pioneer Press Chicago. She calls herself a “journalism free agent with no salary cap.”

Tarkov is often frustrated, always cynical, and thinks about media A LOT. It makes sense since she covers everything from digital and social media, journalisms both citizen and interactive, as well as politics and Chicago.  

Her portfolio includes: “Journalism needs pollinators,” “Patch by the numbers,” and “Journatic worker takes ‘This American Life’ inside outsourced journalism.”

Based in Chicago, Tarkov believes a journalist is a professional explainer. As such, she’s always interested in being followed by people who may be impressed by what she does and, subsequently, hiring her to write for their publication. So go ahead and get in touch right over here.

Do you want to be featured? Set up your own own journalist portfolio and then let us know with delia at muckrack dot com.

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