Oliver Bateman Does the WorkVerified account

Great read, Oliver, very cool to get the inside baseball on the freelance writing grind. Which would you say was your favorite to do?

Anything I do for the Ringer, MEL, or Splice.

There I'm free of editorial interference or the need to write specific things to drive traffic. But that work has found an audience

Yeah absolutely that's a great point. You get the editorial freedom to write about things really interesting things that you know a lot about which is really cool. Also, since you mentioned Vice in the piece, what was it like doing the MSNBC appearance after the McMahon story?

They sent me down to some remote studio in an Uber. It was an uncomfortable filming experience. I had already made a TV documentary and done other work, but this was nothing like that. I was plopped down in front of a single camera and talked into it. Not my fave format