Sarah MirkInterview
Journalist, editor (Bitch)
Adapted from Sarah Mirk's interview on Uses This, published 20 November 2014. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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I have a MacBook Air that I take everywhere and use for everything, plus an iPhone that's so old that people from San Francisco make fun of it.
I use a Zoom recorder for podcast interviews (though we also record segments and the show intros in a professional studio).
When I was getting serious about journalism, I bought a used Canon Rebel XT and that's still reliable for taking photos - I mostly document protests and take photos that I can use to illustrate articles.
Communication
The technology I use most often for my work is Twitter - I love Twitter.
I'm also a big fan of Tumblr, I love the conversations, communities, and art that I stumble across on there.
Design
It's like a free, very simple of Photoshop and is perfect for quickly making extremely basic infographics to run with articles.
Media
The most helpful piece of software I've discovered recently is online photo-editing platform Pixlr.
To find new podcasts, I use an app called Swell, which learns your interests and recommends new shows.