The Media Interview

Karrine Steffans achieved notoriety with her 2005 book, Confessions of a Video Vixen, a tell-all about her sexual encounters with the rich and famous. One of her lovers had a pet name for her – superhead – and the name stuck. Now she’s out peddling her new book, another tell-all called The Vixen Diaries. What’s [...]

Can’t take credit for the title of this piece – it’s a phrase I found on Ike Pigott’s old blog Accentuate the Positive (the new and improved Ike is at Occam’s Razr) and I think it’s a perfect name for those situations where a loose cannon needs media coaching to get reigned in. Here’s the [...]

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I have no idea if there’s anything to this post on NASCAR North, but it raises an interesting point about how organizations could use the timing of media interviews to try and influence how their spokespeople will respond. NASCAR has gone hollywood or perhaps more accurately it’s gone WWE. So much of the spectacle that [...]

Washington DC media trainer Lou Hampton recently posted some good tips about preparing for media interviews with investigative reporters in particular: You should assume the reporter has details of your private life as well as your private business dealings. He goes on to talk about the ease with which those details are accessible these days, [...]

If you read the paper by Pope Benedict XVI which has sparked violence from some Muslims, you’ll understand that he was quoted out of context – or rather, his quoting of a 14th century dialogue was taken out of context. But Johnathan Freedland says in the Guardian Unlimited that “certain roles or positions of responsibility [...]

Observation from blogger Joshua Milne in a piece entitled: Speaking With the Media 101 Below are two interesting and extremely different quotes from NFL rookies that I read today in the Boston Globe. After you read both quotes, you can see one player has spent time working with their college’s sports information department or NFL [...]