Jason Schreier

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It is a weird thing. Yeah, I mean, I'm proud of it and proud of the work and proud of all of the people over the years who have spoken to me and told their stories and trusted me. I'm proud that I've been able to earn that trust. And yeah, I mean, I certainly don't have any complaints about it. It helps me do my job a little bit better and helps me tell people's stories better.

It is a weird thing. Yeah, I mean, I'm proud of it and proud of the work and proud of all of the people over the years who have spoken to me and told their stories and trusted me. I'm proud that I've been able to earn that trust. And yeah, I mean, I certainly don't have any complaints about it. It helps me do my job a little bit better and helps me tell people's stories better.

which gets more information out there and gets more people educated on the realities of the video game industry. So that, to me, seems like a win. If I can kind of leverage that quote-unquote fame or notoriety into telling more stories, that is a win for me.

which gets more information out there and gets more people educated on the realities of the video game industry. So that, to me, seems like a win. If I can kind of leverage that quote-unquote fame or notoriety into telling more stories, that is a win for me.

Yeah, I'll try to give the abridged version of my life story here, which is that I had always wanted to be a writer. And I discovered journalism in high school, joined my high school paper, kind of fell in love with it then, and then did some writing for my college paper as well.

Yeah, I'll try to give the abridged version of my life story here, which is that I had always wanted to be a writer. And I discovered journalism in high school, joined my high school paper, kind of fell in love with it then, and then did some writing for my college paper as well.

And then after school, when I graduated, I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do with myself and wound up doing some kind of freelance reporting and wound up doing local journalism for this outlet that was covering nearby my hometown where I grew up because I moved back with my parents for a little bit after I graduated college. And I'll never forget this.

And then after school, when I graduated, I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do with myself and wound up doing some kind of freelance reporting and wound up doing local journalism for this outlet that was covering nearby my hometown where I grew up because I moved back with my parents for a little bit after I graduated college. And I'll never forget this.

I was sitting in this room, in this big town hall sort of room, covering this zoning board meeting. And a bunch of old dudes were sitting on stage arguing over whether a fence is allowed to be 25 feet or 30 feet. And I was just like, I cannot do this. I need to find something more interesting to write about. And before then, I had written a little bit about games. During college, I had done some...

I was sitting in this room, in this big town hall sort of room, covering this zoning board meeting. And a bunch of old dudes were sitting on stage arguing over whether a fence is allowed to be 25 feet or 30 feet. And I was just like, I cannot do this. I need to find something more interesting to write about. And before then, I had written a little bit about games. During college, I had done some...

I won't even call it freelance reviewing because it was volunteer reviewing. Like I wrote reviews in exchange for like getting codes and that was it for gaming sites and stuff like an RPG site. But after that, after that zoning board meeting is when I decided, okay, I think what about video games?

I won't even call it freelance reviewing because it was volunteer reviewing. Like I wrote reviews in exchange for like getting codes and that was it for gaming sites and stuff like an RPG site. But after that, after that zoning board meeting is when I decided, okay, I think what about video games?

Like I grew up playing video games, have loved video games my entire life, have never stopped playing games. What if I try to cover that And what I wound up doing is I wound up wanting to write reviews, of course, and just cover it in as many ways as possible and get my byline out there in as many ways as possible.

Like I grew up playing video games, have loved video games my entire life, have never stopped playing games. What if I try to cover that And what I wound up doing is I wound up wanting to write reviews, of course, and just cover it in as many ways as possible and get my byline out there in as many ways as possible.

But also I think something that not a lot of people were doing at the time was approaching it as a reporter. And when I kind of – I got my – big break, so to speak, or a foot in the door from a guy named Chris Kohler, an industry legend who was at Wired at the time.

But also I think something that not a lot of people were doing at the time was approaching it as a reporter. And when I kind of – I got my – big break, so to speak, or a foot in the door from a guy named Chris Kohler, an industry legend who was at Wired at the time.

And one of the things that I think appealed to him about my resume and the hundreds that he read and one of the reasons he picked me was because I was like, look, I know a lot of people are getting into this field because they love games or want to be in this field because they love games.

And one of the things that I think appealed to him about my resume and the hundreds that he read and one of the reasons he picked me was because I was like, look, I know a lot of people are getting into this field because they love games or want to be in this field because they love games.

I'm in this field because I love reporting and writing and I want to pick up the phone and call people and tell stories and report news. And games are just kind of like, I love games, and that's an interest of mine. But I would be happy writing and reporting on pretty much anything, except for zoning board meetings where they're arguing over franchises.