The Media Interview

The television industry has, over the years, developed an intricate network of satellite feeds and other means to create what we’ve taken for granted over the last decade or so: the satellite interview or discussion. Now Skype and other internet video technologies are making that intricate network almost obsolete, overnight. Take a look at this [...]

Missed this during CNN’s election coverage, but on November 4 they pulled off a television first – they brought someone into studio via hologram. Correspondent Jessica Yellin was in Chicago, but she was “beamed” into the Washington studio with Wolf Blitzer. As a tip of the hat to Star Trek (and good old fashioned show [...]

Author Carl Weisman blogs about his experiences as a published writer, including doing media interviews: Wow! That was intense. Imagine doing twelve interviews in one morning, including four 10 minute interviews back to back without a break. If you ever find yourself doing radio publicity for one of your books you just may have to [...]

Wrestler Chris Jericho was on Fight Network Radio recently to talk about his new autobiography, A Lion’s Tale. I loved his response when asked if he was “sick of media interviews yet”: I’m happy to talk to anybody. I just did an interview with a fourteen-year-old kid that has his own website. And yesterday I [...]

One of the dangers of doing phone interviews (or IM interviews) is that you’re free to do all sorts of other things at the same time, as blogger Rene Gutteridge discovered: …I realized not too long ago that I was getting to an almost frenzied state of multi-tasking. This occurred to me one day during [...]

The way NPR’s Bryant Park Project tells it, the Icelandic band Sigur Ros was at fault for what it calls “possibly the worst interview in the history of electronic media”. Seriously. It was that bad. We’re not sure if they were tired, or if it was a language thing, or what… but wow. Whereas most [...]

I was reading Where Do You Stand’s piece on Dick Cheney’s wife promoting her new book on The Daily Show. Justin calls Lynne Cheney’s chat with Jon Stewart “one of the most awkward interviews I’ve ever witnessed”. Even Comedy Central promotes the clip as “an extremely uncomfortable interview.” Now it’s Daily Show guests who often [...]

Rosie O’Donnell has shunned (so far) all mainstream media interviews about her new book Celebrity Detox. Instead, she’s posted a series of self-produced interview clips on her blog. Citizen entertainment journalism at work.

Author Will Weaver on being prepared for unprepared interviewers: My 2 1/2 minute TV interview was with a woman anchor with big hair and pancake make-up, who scanned my novel’s inside cover during a cut-away to a commercial, then returned, on-air, to brightly to ask me questions about the novel –but I know the game, [...]

Self-published parenting author Brenda Nixon was interviewed on the CAN Marketing Blog about her experiences with getting and doing radio interviews. Here are a couple of excerpts: Interviewer: What are a few problems you’ve encountered on radio and how did you overcome them? Brenda: Only a couple times have I had a host who wasn’t [...]