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Mary Pilon
American Journalist
Born: May 16, 1986
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Related authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison
Journalism isn't about how smart you are. It's not about where you're from. It's not about who you know or how clever your questions are. And thank God for that. It's about your ability to embrace change and uncertainty. It's about being fearless personally and professionally. Mary Pilon
God You Change Thank God Smart Clever Embrace Ability Fearless About Uncertainty Journalism Know How Questions Thank Being Where Personally Your Who Professionally
By the middle of the century, retirement culture - exemplified by timeshares in Florida, the golf industry, and AARP membership - was booming. Americans, it turned out, were pretty good at figuring out how not to do anything in their twilight years. Mary Pilon
Good Culture Booming Out Membership Pretty Pretty Good Retirement Industry How Were Years American Middle Anything Golf Century Turned Figuring Twilight Florida
Women's combat sports have been on a good run in the United States. Claressa Shields won a gold medal in women's boxing at the London Olympics in 2012, when it became a medal sport. American women won medals in taekwondo and judo as well. Mary Pilon
Good Sports Women States Run London Combat Sport Well Became Boxing Been Won American Gold Gold Medal American Women Medal Medals United United States Olympics
One of sports journalism's great ironies is that covering an Olympics can be wildly unhealthy. NBC shows athletes in peak health performing on the ice and snow, but not the haggard reporters subsisting for three weeks on stadium starches, cheap beer, deadlines, and little sleep. Mary Pilon
Health Great Beer Sports Three Wildly Athletes Weeks Cheap Haggard Journalism Performing Deadlines Covering Ironies Snow Reporters Stadium Ice Unhealthy Little Shows NBC Peak Olympics Sleep
Virtual reality has an exciting future and oodles of room to grow. Mary Pilon
Future Reality Virtual Virtual Reality Exciting Room Grow
Women in finance bore the brunt of layoffs more than their male counterparts during the Great Recession in 2008 and were also more likely to have been in back office jobs that were replaced by computers. Mary Pilon
Finance Great Women Recession Back Jobs Bore More Brunt Layoffs Computers Counterparts Likely Also Were Been Male Replaced Than Office
I remember, often, when you tell people you're doing a book about board games, they think you're totally nuts. And that might be warranted. But I feel like if we can't get the story of Monopoly right... what hope is there for anything else? Mary Pilon
Hope You Book People Remember Think Monopoly Else Nuts Tell Totally About Feel Like Doing Get Often Anything Anything Else Story Board Might Games Right
Social media has created a digital latticework, but it has also, for some, created abusive commenters, silos, and validation rather than curiosity. Mary Pilon
Social Media Digital Validation Some Rather Also Than Curiosity Social Created Media
Because sports are a religion, it's difficult to imagine a world without the Olympics, and to be sure, they have given us many glorious moments. Mary Pilon
Religion Sports World Glorious Difficult Given Sure Because Without Us Many Moments Imagine Olympics
Money can be a reflection of our perceptions of power, self-esteem, personal history, fears, and happiness. Mary Pilon
Happiness History Money Reflection Fears Power Our Perceptions Self-Esteem Personal
Some Americans, like those working in government or nonprofits, know the consequences of having their salaries public. Mary Pilon
Government Consequences Those Some Having Like Know Salaries American Public Working
At the turn of the twentieth century, board games were becoming increasingly commonplace in middle-class homes. In addition, more and more inventors were discovering that the games were not just a pastime but also a means of communication. Mary Pilon
Communication Increasingly Addition More More And More Inventors Also Becoming Were Discovering Pastime Just Board Commonplace Turn Century Means Games Twentieth Twentieth Century Homes
Women's marathoning was not added as an Olympic medal event until 1984 due to unfounded and bizarre concerns among Olympic organizers about women's ability to run longer distances. It was finally added after much campaigning. Mary Pilon
Women Added Distances Finally Run Bizarre Ability About Longer Until Concerns Due Campaigning After Much Medal Event Among Olympic Olympic Medal
As a producer, it's not unusual to find yourself on the field, backstage, often with a camera crew and living with constant anxiety of accidentally ending up in the shot. Mary Pilon
Yourself Anxiety Ending Field Living Crew Backstage Find Constant Unusual Accidentally Camera Up Often Shot Producer
Endnotes, often confused with footnotes that live at the bottom of a page, is that lump of text at the end of the book, sometimes even relegated to a tiny font size. They're often forgotten but, in nonfiction, particularly history books, can offer a fascinating footprint into the author's research, a joyful, geeky abyss. Mary Pilon
History Book Confused Sometimes Abyss Research Live Books Geeky Bottom Footprint Joyful Particularly Nonfiction Text End History Books Offer Author Often Tiny Forgotten Size Page Fascinating Even Lump
It's still thrilling, even if my work is something that people even pretend they're interested in on a first date or at a cocktail party. Mary Pilon
Work People First Party Cocktail Pretend Something Date Thrilling Still Interested Even
No one in my family was a journalist, and it didn't seem like a real job. Part of me still doesn't think it is. Mary Pilon
Family Me Job Journalist Think Seem No-One Part Like Real Still Real Job
I was a fly on the wall at Gawker Media during the heyday of this thing called blogging. Mary Pilon
Fly Heyday Blogging Wall Media Thing
In reporting, you will often be humbled by the courage others have in telling and trusting you with their tale, no two alike. Mary Pilon
You Courage Will Others Alike Telling Tale Trusting Reporting Often Humbled Two
Something amazing happens when you tell people you write about sports for a living. You begin to feel like you're in a scene from 'Dawn of the Dead.' The way people change when talking about 'their team' can be nothing short of zombiefication. Mary Pilon
You Change Sports People Amazing People Change Nothing Living Way Tell About Something Scene Write Dawn Feel Like Dead Talking Begin Short Happens Team
When George Hirsch ran the New York City Marathon in 1976, the first year the course snaked through all five boroughs, the event was a lean affair. He and two thousand others dodged wayward bicycles and pedestrians on the streets, with little help from an anemic police presence. Mary Pilon
Police First Year Pedestrian Others Ran Thousand City Through He New Lean Course Affair George Five York New York New York City Little Little Help Help Event Marathon Presence Streets Two
In the modern road-running era, digital photography has intersected with weekend-warrior culture, creating a golden age of social-media humblebragging. For some, the marathon course is sacred ground. For others, it's a personal movie set. Mary Pilon
Age Photography Culture Digital Others Some Sacred Course Era Personal Modern Golden Golden Age Movie Movie Set Creating Ground Marathon Set
For professional athletes, the motives for cheating generally are more obvious: money, fame, and often a low likelihood of being caught. But why would a middle- or back-of-the-pack runner lie or cheat in a race that doesn't even matter? Mary Pilon
Lie Money Matter Cheating Runner Would Athletes More Generally Cheat Likelihood Obvious Caught Motives Fame Often Middle Being Race Low Professional Professional Athletes Even Why
Long before social media made things like bib replication easier, banditing at major races was viewed as a brave act. Rebellious runners like John Tarrant gatecrashed races as a political statement, in protest of rules about amateurism that limited how much money athletes could earn in appearance fees and endorsements. Mary Pilon
Money Political Social Media Made Long Before Earn Statement Rules Easier Runners Athletes John About Could Fees Major Like Protest Limited How How Much How Much Money Political Statement Brave Social Races Much Act Viewed Appearance Rebellious Media Things
Most major races, including the New York City Marathon, require runners to provide photo identification when picking up a bib. Most provide bibs only a few days before the race, shortening the window in which someone could copy a bib. Mary Pilon
Before Few Photo Runners City Window Someone Only Could Picking New Major Days Most Identification Provide Up York New York New York City Which Race Shortening Races Require Including Marathon Copy
Sports like sailing, rowing, and bobsled have long vexed spectators and television producers. Mary Pilon
Sports Long Television Like Sailing Producers Rowing Spectators
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