Benzinga.com interviewed prolific Reuters blogger Felix Salmon about his job.
Here is an excerpt:
Could you start off by telling us a little bit about yourself and your role at Reuters?
I’m a finance blogger, I’ve been doing this for four years now. I link to interesting stuff on the web and add my .02 when it’s worth it. I have a lot of fun doing it. Calling me an editor is glorifying me far too much. Curator or aggregator is more accurate.
How did you get involved in the financial media?
Basically I was an unemployable art history graduate in this sort of mini-recession in the UK in the 90s, and the only person foolish enough to give me a job was Euromoney, which I rapidly fond out was involved in the bond market. What a bond was? I didn’t know.
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