Dan Schwartz (@CODanSchwartz) is an investigative journalist.
Good night, everybody! Get home safe!
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OK, but, for real, Dan is a freelance journo whose most recent piece came out in the Atlantic. It deals with climate change and how local meteorologists are the best vectors for convincing the skeptics about the climate cancer. Read it here.
Fun fact: I wrote about a local weatherman. Not as adeptly as Dan handles his piece for the Atlantic, but, hey, I’m a man in the arena, bruh.
Dan has written for Outside Magazine, Vice, the Atlantic, and iHeartRadio, among others. And in this conversation we talk about using recorders or just notebooks, interviewing for narrative, growing pains as a reporter, and trying to inject humor into heavy pieces. And how did he get the nickname “FOIA guy”?
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