Beschrijving

Want to learn how to interview people as a journalist? Or maybe you’re a pro in need of a refresher course, with some fresh ideas thrown in. Let HOW TO INTERVIEW DOCTOR WHO, OZZY OSBOURNE AND EVERYONE ELSE be your guide!

Drawing on 25 years of experience and with over 1000 interviews behind him, British writer JASON ARNOPP aims to tell you everything he knows about interrogating the great and good. He has spent these decades interviewing celebrities and rock stars for the likes of Heat, Doctor Who Magazine, Q, SFX and Kerrang!, but the vast majority of the principles described here will apply to ANY journalistic interviewing task. You need this book in your toolbox!

Written in an engaging, conversational style, HOW TO INTERVIEW… packs in over 28,000 words of practical wisdom. You’ll learn about the craft of interviewing, all the way from deciding how you’ll record your interviews, to devising questions, to dealing with various types of interviewee, to writing and editing your article.

Beyond that, however, you’ll get a real feel for what it’s like out there on the front-line. The surprises which PR folk may spring on you when you arrive to conduct your interview. The challenge of getting a reluctant, or even downright angry, interviewee to warm to you and open up. Even what to do when you realise that your recording device has failed to record the interview!

Sections in the book include the following:

Three Things You’ll Need To Refer To During The Interview

Five Qualities That Make For A Good Interviewer

Seven Ways To Set Your Interviewee At Ease

The Eight Types Of Interviewee

Interviewing With An Audience

Fandom Vs Professionalism

The PR Establishes A No-Go Area

Can An Interviewee Ever Become Your Friend?

Underhand Tactics & Grey Areas

Becoming A Fly On The Wall

The Dreaded Roundtable Interview

Alcohol

Nightmare Situations

Transcription: A Necessary Evil

How Verbatim Do You Need To Be With Those Quotes?

The Structure Of An Interview Article

Author Arnopp even throws in a personal guarantee. If you buy this book and are left with questions, he’ll answer them via a Formspring account exclusive to purchasers.

Learn the JOURNALISTIC SECRETS of interviewing, with this incredible, indispensable volume! If you sat the author down in a bar, bought him drinks and picked his brains, leading scientists estimate you’d pay ten times as much as the price of this book!

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