How to Subtly Stalk an Editor

Doing some reporting on the person who could hire you — without coming off weird

Illustration by Midjourney

When Ayurella Horn-Muller was looking to work at an alt-weekly in Miami, she knew she needed some kind of leg up in the application process.

So she did some reporting.

“I spent days scrolling through the socials of one of their editors, discovered they had a penchant for posting about bus delays, and then cold-emailed them with t…