Archive for 'Setting up Interviews'
Avoid getting blindsided by a blog interview
PR blogger Gerry McCusker makes the point on PR Disasters that companies (or anyone) should treat interview requests from bloggers like they would a request from mainstream journalists - what is the blogger’s point view, what is their purpose, will the interview be posted, how will it be posted?
The example he gives of a [...]
Posted: July 14th, 2008 under Crisis Management, Interviews Gone Bad, Phone Interviews, Setting up Interviews, Technology and Media Interviews, Tips for Interviewees, Video Phone Interviews, Web Interview Case Studies.
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Barbara Walters on the demands of lawyers and agents
Barbara Walters on one of the main reasons she stopped doing the TV newsmagazine 20/20 back in 2004:
…it seemed that every celebrity, every murderer…had a lawyer or a press agent all interviewing the interviewer to determine where they could get the most airings for their clients, what kind of questions would be asked, and how [...]
Posted: June 10th, 2008 under Barbara Walters, Getting an Interview, Interviewer Experiences, Media Interview Trends, Setting up Interviews.
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Insisting on email interviews - bad idea?
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 [...]
Posted: May 29th, 2008 under Email Interviews, Missed Interviews, Setting up Interviews, Technology and Media Interviews.
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