Archive for 'IM Interviews'
Keeping your focus during a phone interview
One of the dangers of doing phone interviews (or IM interviews) is that you’re free to do all sorts of other things at the same time, as blogger Rene Gutteridge discovered:
…I realized not too long ago that I was getting to an almost frenzied state of multi-tasking. This occurred to me one day during [...]
Posted: October 24th, 2007 under IM Interviews, Media Tours, Phone-in Interviews, Tips for Interviewees.
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Who is it on the other end of the email?
One of the concerns people raise about email interviews is that you’re allowing the interviewee take their time to craft an answer, maybe even run it by some media handlers. It’s turned out to be a non-issue, I think, because interviews by email generally allows people more time to give thoughtful, useful answers instead [...]
Posted: December 19th, 2006 under Email Interviews, Getting an Interview, IM Interviews, Media Interview Trends, Technology and Media Interviews, Tips for Interviewees.
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Changing standards for being on the record
I was re-reading a valuable post by trade journalist Paul Conley on instant messaging as a reporting tool and it got me thinking about how standards can change as the use of a technology becomes more commonplace:
IM is an informal medium. Sources don’t see talking via IM as an interview. The advantage of that is [...]
Posted: November 15th, 2006 under IM Interviews, Media Interview Trends, Phone Interviews, Technology and Media Interviews.
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