Jay Yarow of Business Insider writes about Mark Gurman, a 19-year-old Michigan freshman who covers Apple for 9to5Mac.com.
Yarow writes, “This wasn’t the first time Gurman beat his better funded, more established colleagues. He also broke the news of Siri getting baked into the iPhone, he was one of the first people with iPhone 5 casings, had an early look at Apple’s Maps, and had the inside story of what Tim Cook told Apple’s employees in a recent all-hands meeting, just to name a few of his big stories.
“A reporter breaking news isn’t particularly newsworthy in and of itself. For a lot of reporters, it’s part of the job description.
“What makes Gurman unique is that he’s a 19-year-old freshman at Michigan, currently studying a little bit of everything — economics, communications, calculus, etc. He tells us that he’s in the process of applying to attend its business school next year.
“Gurman has no formal journalism training. He learned on the job, which he started doing when he was still in high school. Odds are he’s not going to be a journalist when he’s done with school, though he told us, ‘I think no matter what I do, I will always have journalism with me at least as a hobby.”
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