Talk Straight, Listen Carefully – The Art of Interviewing

Print and broadcast students and journalists will find far more than the standard interviewing tips, including:

• The qualitative differences between "hard news' interviews and feature or profile story interviews
  
• Strategies for obtaining hard-to-get interviews
  
• Methods for managing unwilling, shy, hostile, and fearful sources
  
• Techniques for "interviewing on the run"
  
• Interview-related ethical questions and dilemmas
  
• Getting to sources beyond the initial interview
  
• Extracting color and human interest from an interview