News Interview: On-the-scene Interviewer's Handbook

Author: [UK] Sally Adams
Translated by: Fu Xihe, Guo Qiongli, Zeng Huiqi
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This book provides a detailed and practical guide to the core techniques of news interviewing, focusing on how to ask the right questions. It serves as an essential and precise manual for all news scholars, academic experts, students, and trainees. The book covers news reporting writing, as well as features for newspapers and magazines. The focus of news interviewing targets public opinion and the techniques used during press conferences. Using interviews as the foundation for in-depth writing has led to many successful journalists, such as Lin Yiyu Li from The Daily Mail and Andrew Donkin from The Times. The news interviewing techniques introduced in this book encompass every stage of the process, including research, planning, and pre-interview preparation, constructing questions, the importance of body language, how to obtain fresh and impactful "quotes," and gathering and editing information.