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Sally Adams, Wynford Hicks's Interviewing for Journalists (Media Skills) PDF

By Sally Adams, Wynford Hicks

ISBN-10: 0203888855

ISBN-13: 9780203888858

ISBN-10: 0415477743

ISBN-13: 9780415477741

ISBN-10: 0415477751

ISBN-13: 9780415477758

Interviewing for newshounds info the primary journalistic ability of the way to invite the fitting query within the correct manner. it's a useful and concise advisor for all print and on-line reporters – execs, scholars and trainees – even if writing information tales or positive factors for newspapers and magazines, print and net. Interviewing for reporters specializes in the numerous kinds of interviewing, from the regimen road interview, vox pop and press convention to the interview used because the foundation of an in-depth profile. Drawing on formerly released fabric and that includes interviews with successful columnists equivalent to Emma Brockes, who writes for the parent and the hot York occasions and Andrew Duncan of Radio Times. Interviewing for reporters covers each degree of interviews together with study, making plans and instruction, structuring questions, the significance of physique language, how you can get a bright quote, checking fabric and modifying it into assorted codecs. Interviewing for newshounds contains: a discussion in regards to the value and value of the interview for journalism suggestion on how one can deal with face-to-face interviewees with politicians, celebrities and susceptible humans recommendation on facing PRs tips on how to perform the phone and on-line interview pointers on note-taking and recording equipment together with shorthand a discussion of moral, felony concerns similar to libel, doorstepping, off-the-record briefings and the bounds of modifying a glossary of journalistic phrases and notes on additional interpreting.

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So be sure to make the interview a pleasure for your subject. This means engaging their interest from the start. Early on, ask something that shows you’re not just another hack, routinely asking predictable questions. Doctors have ‘heart-sink’ patients who visit the surgery every day – the doctor’s heart sinks at the sight of them. Avoid being a ‘heart-sink’ questioner, signalling from the beginning that the interview is to cover well-trampled ground. The interviewee subconsciously switches off, gives well-rehearsed answers and functions on automatic pilot – exactly what shouldn’t happen.

Third, because by the end of the interview the first-time interviewer may be so exhausted or elated that they forget to ask. It happens. And so does the embarrassing follow-up phone call. ‘Hello, it’s . . again. ’ Again, don’t start abruptly. ’ isn’t recommended. ’ You’re aiming for an interview that runs smoothly, where your interviewee feels at ease. ’ As an opening gambit it fair took the biscuit. Hell, it took the best all-butter shortbread I had bought in for her visit. ’ Go on. Take a wild guess as to what her answer was .

Interviewing the vulnerable is a very different matter, requiring a different approach (see pages 172–77). Telling trio You need only three questions, it’s said. The composer Brahms said they were: ‘Whence? Wherefor? ’ A TV reporter said that for TV it was ‘How bad is it? Is it getting worse? ’ A newspaper version is: ‘When did this start? And then? ’ These are all, in effect, questions to discover the beginning, the middle and the end of a story – the basis of so much journalism. So when trying to find out the beginning, middle and end of the story, remember that what’s needed is a mix of your keenness to listen to what they have to say and the quality and freshness of your questions.

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