From the Author's Website:
Want to learn how to interview people as a journalist? Or maybe you’re curious about exactly how journalists interview people? The new ebook How To Interview Doctor Who, Ozzy Osbourne And Everyone Else will be your guide!
Drawing on 23 years of experience and with over 1000 interviews behind him, Jason Arnopp aims to tell you everything he knows about interrogating the great and good. While Arnopp has spent these decades interviewing celebrities and rock stars like Ozzy Osbourne and Doctor Who star Matt Smith for the likes of Heat, Doctor Who Magazine, Q, SFX and Kerrang!, the vast majority of the principles described here will also apply to quizzing a Marrow Of The Year winner for your local newspaper.
Written in a nuts ‘n’ bolts, 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!
Arnopp includes a few brief anecdotes from rock history, to provide examples and flavour. You’ll find out what happened when one magazine sent a work experience person to interview a rock legend. What happened when one journalist believed he’d become best mates with a pop-punk band. And what happened when the author faced off against hostile metal band Pantera in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Sections in the book include the following:
Five Qualities That Make For A Good Interviewer
Seven Ways To Set Your Interviewee At Ease
The Eight Types Of Interviewee
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
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