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Should I Be In Food Media? With Joseph Hernandez

INSIDE | OUTSIDE with Jessica Murnane

Jessica Murnane

Inspiration, Home & Garden, Leisure, Motivation, Society & Culture, Jessicamurnane, Career, Business, Jobs, Design

4.8642 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

This week, I’m talking to Joseph Hernandez. Joseph shares all the ins and outs of working in food media. He talks about what makes a good pitch to an editor, how working for exposure is a scam, freelancing vs. salary positions, why fact checking is a great entry into food journalism, finding opportunities locally, and his three biggest tips for starting your way into food media.

About Joseph Hernandez: Joseph is the deputy food editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Most recently, he served as research director at Bon Appétit and is an award-winning wine and food writer and former editor at the Chicago Tribune and Wine Enthusiast. He is a fellow of both the Poynter Institute's Leadership Academy for Diversity in Media and the National Critics Institute, the winner of the Frank G. Prial Fellowship at the Symposium for Professional Wine Writers, and a former vice-chair for the James Beard Award Restaurant and Chefs committee.

Show Notes:
Joseph Hernandez on Instagram
The Philadelphia Inquirer (food section)
The Cooking Gene by Michael Twitty  
Poynter Institute
What To Know About Your Rights To Unionize
What A Labor Union Is And How It Works

My books:
ONE PART PLANT COOKBOOK 
KNOW YOUR ENDO

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Right now, a lot of us are asking some pretty deep questions about our careers and how we make our money.

0:07.5

Is this the job I really want to be doing? Is there something more me out there?

0:12.8

Should my job be changing the world or can I just get a check and go watch more TV?

0:17.5

I've got these questions too, and we're going to get to the bottom of them together.

0:22.4

I'm your host, Jessica Mernan, and this is Should I Be. A podcast where I'll be asking all the

0:28.5

questions to all the people whose jobs we think we want to figure out if we want them to. We'll get

0:34.6

started right after this break.

0:45.5

So I sold my house back in May because you could get a lot of money for selling your house in May, but we still haven't found a new one yet and all of our stuff is in storage.

0:50.7

We've been in a lot of different temporary rentals and I sort of don't mind living

0:55.2

out of a suitcase. But the one thing that I don't care for is all of the betting situations.

1:02.6

Not having my own sheets and blankets just doesn't make me feel at home at night. And it's why I'm

1:08.4

so excited about my new puffer blanket by Buffy.

1:12.3

The new Buffy Puffer will be coming with me to every single place we stay from now on.

1:17.9

Having my own blanket, especially one that is so soft, makes me feel at home even when we're at a

1:23.9

rental.

1:24.8

These new puffer blankets are so comfy and so durable that you can use

1:29.3

them indoors and outside. They are made of Buffy's signature, silk soft eucalyptus, and they have

1:35.6

these super rich shades that are made with dyes that are free of all the junk that most dyes have.

1:41.4

Plus, they are washable. When you're living out of a suitcase, dry cleaning

1:45.7

feels very annoying. Actually, dry cleaning feels very annoying even if you have a closet. So being able

1:52.1

to throw this right into the wash is such a game changer. I got my puffer in the super pretty

1:58.9

plantain color, which is this rich yellow, but it also comes

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