Brian James Kirk of Technically Philly profiles Philadelphia Inquirer business columnist Joe DiStefano about his job and how he covers technology.
“‘It’s a lot easier to get a hold of key documents and get answers to a lot of basic questions online,’ says DiStefano, who pens the Inky’s PhillyDeals column.
“‘But reporting is reporting. News is information that someone else wants to suppress.’
“DiStefano has the gruff exterior one might expect of a veteran newspaper columnist who writes hard news about regional business.
“‘I used to tell CEOs that if you’re indicted, I will cheerfully write that story on page one. Not to celebrate indictment, but because we have the space there,’ he says. ‘It’s an adversarial role.'”
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