Chapter 14 response

As I read this chapter, I came across something very interesting. The part about the right questions to ask I thought were important. As a journalist, we need to make sure we get the correct information. We don't want to end up catching ourselves making things up as we go along.

I found that when I do interviews, I generally ask at the end if there is anything I left out or anything of importance that I forgot. I want to make sure that I get the main points across on an article, which means finding out what the person being interviewed want the readers to know. I find that I get some good quotes at the end because the person isn't struggling to come up with an answer to the questioned asked. Questions asked during an interview can be challenging.

When I prepare for an interview, I start with a list of people I want to interview and questions I want to ask them. As I go along with an interview, I end up having follow up questions I ask in response to their answer.

Unfortunately, I have had to do interviews over email before, and I'm not a fan of it. Granted that you can get accurate quotes from the person, you still don't have the face-to-face connection with the person and it's hard to ask follow up questions over the internet. You also don't know when they person will respond to you. I prefer face to face interviews, even if it is intimidating at times. Also, I've never done video chat interviews.

I feel as though every interview is a learning experience. You figure you what you can improve on for next time and what you should keep on doing. I recommend to any future journalist to try the best you can to get personal interviews with people.