Course description

This course on interviewing is intended to help beginning journalists, bloggers, social media professionals, and public relations professionals conceive, set up, and execute interviews that provide the foundation for an engaging and informative article, blog post, podcast, or video feature. The course includes a review of effective interviews, such as Katie Couric's 2008 interview with then-vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, which altered how Palin was viewed by the public, and the work of famed radio journalist Studs Terkel, whose ability to extract and portray ordinary people's stories led to his being awarded the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The course covers interview preparation, source selection, conduct of the interview itself, and how to make the highest and best use of the material that sources provide. We also discuss what can go wrong in an interview, how to ask hard questions, when to go off the record, and the ins and outs of difficult interviews. The course expands upon our examination of classic examples with a discussion of interview techniques, exercises to gain effectiveness, and real-world reporting experiences, from which students produce print, audio, or video stories.

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