The Media Interview

Canada’s CBC Radio is running a six-part series about the news media and public relations Spin Cycles: A Series About Spin, The Spinners And The Spun. I only happened upon the fourth episode this past Sunday, but I’m catching up on their website, which not only has the broadcasts, but also full (or at least [...]

The Australian Prime Minister’s office maintains a large collection of media interview transcripts dating back to 1997.

Even though the coverage may be regional, these websites provide some excellent lessons to anyone doing interviews or being interviewed: Australian watch dog TV show, Media Watch, takes a weekly look at how well the country’s mainstream media is doing. Their website contains a lot of show transcripts, audio, and video going back to 1999. [...]

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 [...]

Handy outline of the steps to a successful media interview, from the very useful Online-Pr.com site – lots of links to public relations tutorials and websites.

Reporting on the business world is extremely important and not an easy task if it’s done well – found a great resource for business journalists and anyone interested in understanding news about business, called BusinessJournalism.org. The website is run by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. Lots of great articles and analysis, [...]

Power Reporting provides links to thousands of websites for journalists or anyone interested in the media. From research tools to media commentary, you’ll find something of use, and it’s well laid out by subject area. Not as comprehensive but covering all the basics is Smarter Surfing – a set of links to help journalists make [...]

Bibliography of Articles and Books on Interviewing from the Poynter Institute. An excellent selection of online and offline materials, begun in 2002 and updated as recently as this month.

I love the commenting system that Jack Slocum has built on his blog using the Yahoo UI and, at this point, heavily modifying WordPress. You click on the marker next to the area of content and up pop all the comments about that content. Since the comments are posted via Ajax, you don’t have heavy [...]

Newsroom Confidential offers insider information from the media. Useful for interviewees to gain perspective on the media, and for journalists to learn from their peers. Looking for online newspapers? Check out The Newspaperindex – comprehensive listings from around the world.