News Interview First-hand Interview Handbook

Author: [UK] Sally
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: The book provides a detailed explanation of the core techniques of news interviewing, focusing on how to ask the right questions. It serves as a practical and precise guide for all print journalism scholars, expert scholars, students, and trainees. It covers news reporting writing, as well as features for newspapers and magazines. The focus of news interviewing targets public opinion and the interviews conducted at press conferences. Using interviews as the foundation for in-depth writing, many successful newsroom professionals, such as Lin Yousai Li from the Daily Mail and Andrew Donken from the Times, have achieved success. The news interviewing introduced in this book encompasses every stage of the interview process, including research, planning, and pre-interview preparation, constructing questions, the importance of body language, how to obtain fresh "quotes," and collecting and editing information.