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Thomas Lin

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  1. “Leading edge technology. They had a great foresight in terms of starting early. They didn't necessarily have it all figured out early on, but they started early. They started getting stuff on the web. They started hiring people like me to think about what we could do journalistically online that wasn't just replicating the paper. Remember working on some of the Hurricane Katrina coverage and working all night because it was so important to bring people immediate pictures of what was happening on the ground. And that's not something you can get through a daily newspaper. Right.”

    2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Yeah, so initially I started on the national desk at the time. So it wasn't about science at all. And I was just a journalist to learn about what's happening in the world and bring that to people. And that was great. I mean, the times when I decided I wanted to go into journalism, you know, like many people, the times was the dream, right? That's where I wanted to be. And I was very lucky to be able to land a job when I did. And I started on the digital side, which created really interesting opportunities in terms of that interface between the newer technologies that were starting to change the way journalism was done and sort of the older traditional legacy print publication. There are a lot of things were just changing. It was a very sort of radical time in a way to be at the times.”

    2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Yeah, no, I was definitely pushed to go ahead in things like math and physics in school. I ended up studying calculus after my freshman year in high school. And so the conversations were about everything, but there was definitely a scientific bent to a lot of those conversations. And we had, my mom loved puzzles, and we had puzzles all over the place in our house.”

    2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “You know, I think that people, a lot of people are smarter than I am. And when they're younger and they realize what they're good at and they specialize and they either go sort of the science track or they become a humanities major, they study literature or they study something else or they go into law or medicine or something like that. I really just have a broad interest from a very young age and I loved writing. I was very interested in literature. But I also had parents who were essentially physicists and I grew up in this very science culture kind of environment. My family, I have a lot of scientists in my family. And so there's always that part of my brain that works that way too.”

    2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Yeah, it's kind of a crazy story. I mean, I think as with a lot of people who end up in a place that they ultimately really enjoy and feel very satisfied with in terms of their careers, I sort of fell into it. I mean, I started out, you know, in college just not knowing what I wanted to do, and I studied physics and I studied literature, and I really was all over the place. And so I ended up sort of utilizing a little bit of the physics side of things as an engineer initially, but then I also wanted the human aspect. So I taught for a few years. Then I realized that, especially after 9-11, I realized that I wanted to be out there in the world learning more about what's happening and helping to bring news events to the broader public. And so I decided to become a journalist. And eventually backed my way into science journalism.”

    2019-05-24 · Masters in Business · Thomas Lin Discusses Deep Science (Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source