I have a story with Benji.

Last year I went viral, and Benji was the first person to interview me. It was a really cool experience, we chatted via Twitter dms, and he wrote a piece about my work - overall did a decent job.

Then, 6 months later a separate project I was adjacent to was starting to pick up steam. I reached out to him asking if he wanted to cover us. No response.

Then, tech crunch wrote an article on our project.

I reached to Benji again saying "Hey would you like to chat again, now we have some coverage?" And he finally responded, but said he couldn't report on me because he had a directive that he could only report on things that didn't have any prior or pre-existing coverage (?)

I thought that was rather strange, especially since we already had built up a relationship.

I don't really have a moral or lesson to this story, other than that journalism can be rather opaque sometimes.

Oh one other tip for anyone reading this - if you do ever get reached out to by journalists, communicate in writing, not a phone call so you can be VERY precise in your wordings.

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areoform 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Sometimes people get busy and overwhelmed, but they don't know how to say no.

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epistasis 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I know a lot of people that don't get through their email every week, for example. Even saying no takes too much time, with the volume of communication required by daily work.

	▲	abustamam an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Very few people email me except for endless newsletters that I accidentally signed up for. I try to un sub to a few every day but it seems never ending. In the event that you actually do end up emailing me, it's contingent on me actually checking my personal email, which I never do when I'm not working, and only sometimes do during work hours. If it's you asking me a favor that I'm not in the mental space for, I'll mark the message unread as a reminder to get to it later. Maybe I just have weird email habits, but I can get away with this because email is not a heavy part of my job. That being said, one guy was pitching me on something several times a month for several months. I just recently responded to him and apologized because of x y z. He said don't worry and we had a fruitful conversation later. So, follow through is important!
	▲	Barbing an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Their repeat emailers might win eventually! Passing on some life advice to anyone who’d benefit, people are busy. Maybe they didn’t respond because you’re annoying?… no no, feel it out and text again a while later. Give them another shot, get to the top of their inbox or messages again. After someone told me that I realized it’s true!

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lovich 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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	▲	grantith an hour ago \| parent [-]
		They have a website, a twitter handle, and a GitHub profile with their real name.