Talk Straight, Listen Carefully

Interviewing is a vital tool for journalists. In <i>Talk Straight, Listen Carefully</i>, the authors and other seasoned journalists share their interviewing experience and explain how to successfully approach all types of people, extract information, and gain solid material. <p>Print and broadcast students and journalists will find far more than the standard interviewing tips, including:</p> <ul> <li>The qualitative differences between “hard news’ interviews and feature or profile story interviews</li> <li>Strategies for obtaining hard-to-get interviews</li> <li>Methods for managing unwilling, shy, hostile, and fearful sources Techniques for “interviewing on the run”</li> <li>Interview-related ethical questions and dilemmas </li> <li>Getting to sources beyond the initial interview </li> <li>Extracting color and human interest from an interview</li> </ul>