The Media Interview

More and more print publications are putting their interviews online. Be aware that most of these are edited transcripts. Where possible I’ll try to indicate if they are original unedited versions. Maclean’s Magazine (Canada)

Detroit Lions wide receiver Roy Williams was out delivering pizzas for an afternoon recently – all because of a media interview. Back on September 24th, during his weekly chat on WDFN radio, Williams said he never tips the people who deliver pizza. Doh! Despite trying to clarify himself on a later broadcast, the outrage poured [...]

Don’t you hate when this happens: At one point I said something quoteworthy but the tape wasn’t running, so she asked me to say it again and I think I pulled it off, but I think it sounded better the first time. That’s David Erickson blogging about his experience with a taped-on-location radio interview. The [...]

One of the big buzz words these days on the internet is transparency – and the posting of interview transcripts is a commonly touted as a key to providing transparency. As I was reading Powells.com’s online interview with Paris Review editor Philip Gourevitch, his description of the origins of this venerable literary magazine struck a [...]

Picked up a book at the library the other day (yes, a building filled with printed books) called The Sound and the Fury and it turns out to be based on a web-site called Rock’s Back Pages. If you’re a music journalist doing research or a musician looking for some tips on how to conduct [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Excellent piece from Steve Rubel on the potential for increased transparency in media interviews because of blogging. the media interview as we know it though is going through a radical transformation and it’s starting not with the reporters but with bloggers. Transparency is about making more, if not all, of an interview available to the [...]

I’ve been posting recently about how the internet is making it possible for edited interviews to be supplemented with full transcripts or full video/audio. So it was very interesting to stumble upon the Echo Chamber Project, a collaborative video documentary being constructed on the web. Part of the production process is to post the transcripts [...]

In a live interview we see or hear everything, but with edited interviews, we’re always left wondering – what didn’t we see or hear? Print interviews have always faced this question. The internet is beginning to level the field between edited and live interviews – by way of full transcripts/video/audio posted online. Perhaps as interesting [...]