How Did You Get Your Start in Journalism?

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i won a journalism contest when i was in junior hih. And basically after that, my first job out of college was teaching e s l an adonesia. I applied for a newsweek entranship, but i didn't get it. All my full term jobs are not, i wasn't there very long because i kept quitting,. Much to my parents consternation. What were your sort of early experiences, like trying to break inha? It's so funny, because probably his earliest experience was that.

Laura Shin is a journalist covering cryptocurrency and hosts the podcast Unchained. Her new book is The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze.

“I was extremely well-acquainted with what the failings were with our traditional financial system. I was seeing through my other reporting how everything works now, and really understanding, whoa, this is not a good system. And then getting this education on what bitcoin is, I understood right away: wow, this is going to change the world.”

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