Hotline Interviews Bennett Roth

What was your first job?

My first job was at the Black River Tribune, a spunky weekly in Ludlow, Vermont, that was a training ground for smart-alecky recent college graduates who were picking up a little journalism experience in between drinking and enjoying the great outdoors. Another alumnus of that newspaper is Ned Lamont, who worked there several years before I did. So maybe there is a future in politics for me too — NOT.

What’s your most embarrassing on-the-job moment? (Or as embarrassing as you’d like to reveal?)

The red-faced moment occurred a number of years ago when I first began working for the Chronicle in Houston.