The Media Interview

Jason McIntyre co-creator, writer, and editor, of the blog The Big Lead interviewed on Sports Media Guide: Q. Do you do your interviews by e-mail or phone? A. Kornheiser was over the phone – he doesn’t do e-mail. I prefer e-mail. I started doing it by e-mail because I was anonymous at the time and [...]

Jon Greer blogs on B-Net – Catching Flack about when it’s not a good idea to insist on email interviews. He tells how the Ann Arbor News was writing a series about universities letting athletes take easy courses to maintain their scholarships: The paper sought an in-person or phone interview with [University of Michigan] president [...]

Another voice weighs in on the email interview debate: Being interviewed is usually a miserable experience. One can expect to be misquoted, one does not always have time to reflect on answers, and it can be very stressful. I try to give only email interviews now, after so many experiences with being misquoted – which [...]

One of the concerns people raise about email interviews is that you’re allowing the interviewee take their time to craft an answer, maybe even run it by some media handlers. It’s turned out to be a non-issue, I think, because interviews by email generally allows people more time to give thoughtful, useful answers instead of [...]

Mark Glaser in the Online Journalism Review Posted: 2004-10-12 More and more, blogs are giving sources the power to strike back and making journalists think twice about what they run in a story and how they conduct an interview. Case in point: Billionaire technology entrepreneur Mark Cuban, who also owns the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks basketball [...]