By Mindy McAdams
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This is a list of guidelines for experienced journalists who are interviewing someone with a video camera for the first time. This is not TV news style; the reporter will never appear on camera, and the reporter’s voice will be edited out of the final version.
My students are required to use a tripod for interviews. […]
We are always struggling to teach young journalists how to interview better.
Successful interviews get people to go further than they planned to go, and rarely come from a planned list of questions, even when the questions are good ones. Interviewing does not work that way. It is a dynamic process involving two basic stages. Stage […]
I showed this to my students last week, and apparently most of them agreed with me — this is not your average Soundslides.
At 5 min. 27 sec., it’s much longer than what works best for most audio slideshows. Consensus among people who watch a lot of audio slideshows is that after 2 minutes, most of […]
My friend Mary McGuire, who teaches online and broadcast journalism at Carleton University, in Ottawa (the capital of Canada), has posted a wonderfully clear and concise list of guidelines for editing audio that all journalists can use. Bookmark it now!
In it, she answers questions that I am asked every time I teach journalists (or […]
Ben Shapiro has some serious chops: His film and video work has been shown on PBS, the Sundance Channel and the National Geographic Channel, as well as at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has three Emmys and an AFI documentary prize. He wrote a very helpful essay […]
In Killer Interviewing Tips for Podcasters, Part 1, Jack Herrington advises us to start with the topic:
“What are people talking about? What are YOU talking about? Find a person at the center of the swirl and come up with three or four questions that you are dying to ask.”After that, it’s a matter of persistence […]
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