The Media Interview

I’m working on some posts about interviews conducted via IM (instant messaging) and I just discovered Campfire, a web-based group chat system. Lots of great features for conducting IM interviews: it automatically keeps transcripts of your chats, allows you to share files, isn’t dependent on being on Messenger, or AIM, or some other instant messaging [...]

Found a post on Newsvine entitled Why the Socceroos need media training…… These are my favourite quotes from interviews with Australian soccer players. “I’d like to play for an Italian club, like Barcelona .” – Vince Grella. “You’ve got to believe that you’re going to win, and I believe we’ll win the World Cup until [...]

I’m working on a post about VJs – Video Journalists who do their own camera work – and it got me thinking about the issue of interviewees looking into a camera. In an article about Video Journalism in Television Broadcast, former VJ and now consultant, Michael Rosenblum had this comment: “The conventional rule of ‘don’t [...]

It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it. – Aristotle, The Rhetoric

Hmmm, I should get into media training for US politicians: Swift Boat Vets and POWs for Truth “527″ Expenditure Details $50,000 Reimburse Media Training 08/31/2004 $30,000 Media Training 08/09/2004 From the website Campaign Money.

Jeff H. on the McClenahan Bruer Communications blog, points out that spokespeople for b2b tech companies, who up til now have tended to focus on media training for print/online interviews, may need to do some broadcast media training if more and more interviews are recorded for podcasts. Good point. And of course this applies to [...]

Here’s an interesting quote from Australian Health Minister Tony Abbott, speaking at a conference on the media on August 24: These days, many of the most important and difficult debates don’t occur in parliament but in lengthy live media interviews where politicians are expected to have instant answers to every question and a single mistake [...]

I’ve spoken on this blog about media interview expert John Sawatsky’s work at ESPN, helping sports reporters be better interviewers. On the flip side there’s been a lot of buzz in US college sports circles about the need for media training college athletes – something that’s mandatory in many professional sports – following a number [...]

Newsweek reporter Nicki Gostin tried to ambush interview former 90210 and Charmed star Shannen Doherty for the Aug. 21-28, 2006 issue: NG: Hi, Shannen, how are you? SD: I’m good, thank you. I’m unpacking from New York. I can’t stand unpacking. NG: Can’t you get your maid to do it? SD: No! I’m a normal [...]

Bit off topic here, but may I just say that spam blogs are wasting a lot of my time and making some blog search engines almost useless.