Editor and news aggregator Phil Lewis isn’t afraid of YouTubers or TikTokkers. He says the real threat is misinformation.
Phil Lewis never planned on leaving Michigan. Detroit was home. As far as he could see, he was going to die there. Still, he wasn’t exactly happy with the life he’d built, he tells me over Zoom. After graduating from Michigan State University, where he studied sociology, Lewis cycled through Teach for America and landed a gig as an elementary school educator, teaching seventh-grade history and social studies. But it wasn’t enough.
What I like most about whenever I’m sharing a story, I know that it’s not just readers who are at work who, you know, just opened up their phone and were like, ‘Oh wow, I found out about this story.’ It's also assignment editors, who follow me. People at The New York Times, at CNN— —at BuzzFeed. I bet they regret rejecting you now . It’s funny because people will tell me, “Hey, we shared your tweet in our newsroom Slack channel.
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