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phil
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Welcome to @mazmhussain! Murtaza is an independent journalist, host of /dropglobalnews, and one of my favorite new follows on Farcaster. He has agreed to do an AMA for the /books channel. Reply with your questions. :)
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phil
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When and why did you decide to become a journalist?
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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
Thanks for having me. I actually never decided to become a journalist; I came from a very working class background and that was seen as more of an “elite” field. I studied economics and finance in school and started a career in that direction. Despite that I never really enjoyed that world even thought it made a living. I always kept writing on the side, and doing reporting in my spare time as a hobby. Around 2011 I went to Egypt and Tunisia to observe the Arab Spring and started pitching stories about what I’d been seeing to various outlets. From there it started snowballing and by 2013 I had a huge network and began working on big stories like the Edward Snowden NSA documents. Since then I’ve worked as a journalist exclusively and built a new career doing that (though I still keep an eye on the financial world and that mixed with my experiences a journalist piqued my interest in crypto for example)
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