The Media Interview

Author Carl Weisman blogs about his experiences as a published writer, including doing media interviews:
Wow! That was intense. Imagine doing twelve interviews in one morning, including four 10 minute interviews back to back without a break. If you ever find yourself doing radio publicity for one of your books you just may [...]

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 [...]

Sometimes you just have to wonder where an interviewer’s mind is…
I’m watching a morning show and they are interviewing [homeless] survivors of a wave of tornadoes that hit Arkansas. Apparently one of these tornadoes hit before the sirens could go off…
Interviewer: So tell me, there were no warning sirens for this one. How does that [...]

I’m always saying you can’t let things distract you during an interview. Here’s a story from the BBC about police Superintendent Bryan Lawson, who was being interviewed on location about drug raids:
As I was talking, I could see a guy in the corner of my eye walking past carrying something the size of a portable [...]

English football manager Avram Grant gave a bizarre press conference after his Chelsea team’s win over Everton on April 17 - so bizarre that The Independent ran an almost complete transcript. I say ‘almost’ because it doesn’t give a full sense of the pauses and silences. Anyway, here’s part of the one-word wonder [...]

Caught a bit of VH-1’s I Know My Kid’s A Star the other night and apart from learning how NOT to speak to or deal with your children (some of these parents are committing verbal abuse in my books), there’s a common thread coming from the judges and host Danny Bonaduce:
It’s all about being in [...]

Heard a great story the other day while waiting in the green room at a TV station. Author Sue Johnson (Hold Me Tight) was saying how she once had a 5 minute TV appearance reduced to only 3 minutes because they couldn’t get a tiger off the set from the previous interview.

My wife Kim, who runs the publicity firm Publicity Mavens, has teamed up with me to produce a bi-weekly newsletter with tips on getting media attention and then keeping it. It has something of a focus on books, but it’s really turning out to be very general.
We look forward to bringing you some inside [...]

That is, if there’s a recorder on. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper learned this the hard way recently, when a 2005 encounter with a journalist came back to haunt him. Tom Zytaruk was working on a biography about MP Chuck Cadman who had recently passed away, when he heard that Harper - at [...]