Archive for 'Setting up Interviews'
Billy Bob Thornton shuts down on CBC Radio
As I started to watch yesterday’s much talked about interview with Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters on CBC Radio out of Toronto, I thought we were in for another Sigur Ros or Joaquin Phoenix stunt, when the interviewee simply clams up. Then, as host Jian Ghomeshi asked about Billy Bob’s musical influences growing up, [...]
Posted: April 9th, 2009 under Bad Live Interviews, Entertainment Beat, Interview Preparation, Musician Tips, Prohibited Questions, Radio Interview Case Studies, Setting up Interviews, Televised Audio Interviews.
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Avoid getting blindsided by a blog interview
PR blogger Gerry McCusker makes the point on PR Disasters that companies (or anyone) should treat interview requests from bloggers like they would a request from mainstream journalists – what is the blogger’s point view, what is their purpose, will the interview be posted, how will it be posted? The example he gives of a [...]
Posted: July 14th, 2008 under Crisis Management, Interviews Gone Bad, Phone Interviews, Setting up Interviews, Technology and Media Interviews, Tips for Interviewees, Video Phone Interviews, Web Interview Case Studies.
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Barbara Walters on the demands of lawyers and agents
Barbara Walters on one of the main reasons she stopped doing the TV newsmagazine 20/20 back in 2004: …it seemed that every celebrity, every murderer…had a lawyer or a press agent all interviewing the interviewer to determine where they could get the most airings for their clients, what kind of questions would be asked, and [...]
Posted: June 10th, 2008 under Barbara Walters, Getting an Interview, Interviewer Experiences, Media Interview Trends, Setting up Interviews.
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Insisting on email interviews – bad idea?
Jon Greer blogs on B-Net – Catching Flack about when it’s not a good idea to insist on email interviews. He tells how the Ann Arbor News was writing a series about universities letting athletes take easy courses to maintain their scholarships: The paper sought an in-person or phone interview with [University of Michigan] president [...]
Posted: May 29th, 2008 under Email Interviews, Missed Interviews, Setting up Interviews, Technology and Media Interviews.
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