Writers/Editors as Interviewers, or the ART of Interviewing: How to Play Twenty Questions and Get Good Answers with the Tape Recorder Running

摘要

To conduct a successful journalistic interview, the interviewer must do a lot more than just ask questions. The interviewer must act as a conduit in the interview, drawing in and channeling the information for an audience. Such a burden is enough to cause any novice questioner to freeze up in the face of The Interview. To shrink the task to manageable proportions, the interviewer can break down the interview into three phases: preparing the groundwork, getting down to business, and wrapping it up. The interviewer also needs to remember that conducting a successful interview is an art: a combination of technique, intuition, practice, and style. Applying the art of interviewing to all three phases can help make the interviewing experience a fruitful one for you, the interviewer, and a pleasant one for all participants. (ERA citation 08:028648)