The Media Interview

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 [...]

The editor of Cracked magazine, Jay Pinkerton, did an interview that went rather badly, and he blogged about what it’s like to be on the other side of an interview: In working for a magazine [that] conducts interviews, I’ve come across people who outright refuse to take questions by phone or in person, asking for [...]

I was re-reading a valuable post by trade journalist Paul Conley on instant messaging as a reporting tool and it got me thinking about how standards can change as the use of a technology becomes more commonplace: IM is an informal medium. Sources don’t see talking via IM as an interview. The advantage of that [...]

Media coach Roberta Gale reminds us all of an easily-forgotten point for phone interviews: turn off your call waiting! Yeah, it’s a godsend when you’re talking to your mother and the network is trying to call to let you know you’ve made the finals of “American Idol,” but it’s a less-than-stellar feature when you’re being [...]

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 [...]