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Archive for 'Print Interview Case Studies'

East, schmeast, what’s in a name?

Freelance writer Hrag Vartanian blogs about being misquoted:
I was interviewed by Steve Malanga for a recent profile of Bushwick, Brooklyn for City Journal and found this paragraph that proved to me (yet again) that you should always be cautious about giving interviews, even to nice guys–which Steve obviously is:
Some early arrivals claim that landlords hoodwinked [...]

The Cadman driveway interview gets new legs

A week or so ago I mentioned the controversy over statements made by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper during a taped encounter with journalist Tom Zytaruk in 2005 in the driveway of MP Chuck Cadman’s widow’s home. The statements allegedly showed Harper acknowledging that payments had been offered to Cadman when he was alive [...]

What’s said in the driveway doesn’t stay in the driveway

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 [...]

Why won’t the Globe and Mail correct this story online?

A producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is taking the Globe and Mail newspaper to task for refusing to correct the electronic edition of a story about him. Todd Maffin has a popular blog, which the article says is endorsed by the CBC - in fact it’s not - and Maffin doesn’t want to [...]

A tale of two quotes

Observation from blogger Joshua Milne in a piece entitled: Speaking With the Media 101
Below are two interesting and extremely different quotes from NFL rookies that I read today in the Boston Globe. After you read both quotes, you can see one player has spent time working with their college’s sports information department or NFL PR [...]