The Media Interview

To borrow from an old expression – I wish I’d built that. I’m referring to Access Interviews, a site begun last year by British journalist Rob McGibbon, which aims to archive links to all types of media interviews anywhere on the web. And you’re invited to submit interviews for inclusion in the archive. The links [...]

Billing itself as “the largest archive of J.K. Rowling interviews on the web” (and when you see it you’ll have no doubt it is), the website Accio Quote! asks fans of the writer to be “canon nifflers” and help find obscure interviews to round out the collection. Any interview nifflers out there? (I am informed [...]

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)

What are people feeling and doing while being interviewed by phone? You can find postings like this one from director Arin Crumley that give you some perspective: CFUN Radio Interview – Arin CrumleyUploaded by Arincrumley Arin and co-director Susan Buice have a good little collection of videos of their phone interviews – it’s a great [...]

Barnes and Noble’s revamped website includes an area called Barnes and Noble Media and it’s a treasure-trove of author interviews as well as interviews with musicians and filmakers. Thanks to Social Media Optimization for alerting me to this. Here are the relevant sections from the B&N press release: The new site features “One on One” [...]

I love what Lorri Allen is doing over at her Soundbites blog. She’s got an interview with author Mellanie True Hills (A Woman’s Guide to Saving Her Own Life) about what it’s like to be interviewed and what Mellanie’s best advice would be for any interviewee, not just authors.

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Readers of this blog know that I’m no fan of what I call “the will to fill” – the habit of filling in pauses in speech with words such as like, ummm, ahhh, etc. Turns out there’s a website devoted to this very problem: www.ummlike.com and they have a top ten list of offenders. Go [...]

Too often we take our voices for granted, until you’re on a media tour, for example, and you’re answering questions all day long. Today is World Voice Day, which was started back in 2002 to encourage everyone to assess their vocal health all year long, and take action to improve and maintain good voice habits. [...]

The BBC has some useful online training that you can take for free. In particular, they have a few modules on radio interviewing techniques (of course it applies to any interviewing for audio only). The most useful, I think, is Module 1 because it’s an analysis and backgrounder to an actual interview. So you can [...]