Patrick Thomas on creativity in business journalism, why running leads to the best ideas, and writing a book

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Patrick Thomas writes about agriculture and the food industry for The Wall Street Journal. He covers meatpacking companies, supermarkets and how American food is grown. He joined the Journal in 2018 writing about corporate breaking news and is a native of Omaha, Nebraska. He joins this episode of Version 1 to talk about what makes business journalism creative, how running leads to breakthroughs and how he takes hundreds of pages of notes and distills it down to an article. Subscribe to Version 1's substack: version1podcast.substack.com/ Follow Version 1 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/version1podcast/ Support the show: buymeacoffee.com/waverlycolville

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