The Media Interview

The plastic surgeon who operated on Kanye West’s mother the day before she died, walked off CNN’s “Larry King Live” during an interview tonight. Larry King opened the hour by saying that it wasn’t clear if Dr. Jan Adams would appear as promised. King said that West’s family had formally asked Adams not to go [...]

Author Carolyn Hughley is doing her first TV interview in the morning and she’s having a bit of trouble sleeping… I crawled back out of bed and headed to the bathroom to take two sleep aids, thinking they might help. I no sooner swallowed that last pill when I suddenly began worrying that I’d sleep [...]

On his blog Speak to Lead, Lou Hampton tells this great story in an article about overcoming tiredness during media interviews: A former colleague was in the green room at the Today Show when another guest, a popular actor know for his action films, came in, sat down, and dozed. When it was time, he [...]

Ran across a tip that might help some people reduce anxiety heading into an interview: make it a point to shake hands with every single person you meet along the way. If you are doing a face to face interview ask if it is possible to shake hands with your host of interviewer before you [...]

When I travel for a media interview, I’m always paranoid that I’m not going to wake up in time and miss the show. So, I go a little overboard on alarms: I request a wake-up call, I set the alarm clock by the bedside and set the alarm clock on my cell phone. After not [...]

Saw a live TV interview today in which the guest caught a bad case of the swivels. Seated on a swivel chair behind a news desk, the guest’s very effective hand gestures and body language resulted in making the chair twist back and forth just enough to make me seasick. One of the dangers of [...]

File this story from author Amy Hagberg under “things you can’t prepare for on a media tour”. As I walked out the door of the hotel to my rental car, I was surprised to find an unexpected blanket of newly fallen snow. I wasn’t really prepared for that (no self-respecting Minnesotan uses gloves unless it [...]

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde: there is only one thing worse than missing an interview, and that’s missing an interview and having the non-interview posted on a blog for everyone to hear. Listen to 17 minutes of on-hold music while the interviewer waits for his guest (who never picked up); then the interviewer starts reading out [...]

Saw two women being interviewed on CNN the other day about a CD they produced to help people get to sleep. The interview was wrapping up and we hadn’t heard or seen anything about a website for the product. At the last second, as the women were saying good-bye, one of them tries to blurt [...]