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 [...]

At least once in their careers, most journalists have had a technical problem that required them to re-do an interview. New York Times Senior Art Director Steven Heller, a widely-published design writer and editor, shared his experience in an email interview with Unbeige: For years I would use my trusty cassette player — usually face [...]

As I’ve been thinking about the pros and cons of conducting interviews via instant messaging (IM), I came across this posting from trade journalist Paul Conley: I’ve taken to urging B2B reporters to join the IM world because IM is exactly the sort of tool a reporter needs. It’s faster than email. It’s transparent (the [...]

Just bought a new TV tuner for my PC – an ATI All-in-Wonder USB – because I read that it will save transcripts of TV shows to text file (using the closed captioning), and it will scan the closed captioning based on a keyword(s) you set up, and if it spots the keyword it’ll start [...]

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 [...]