So far, I have one interview completed with the Director of Facilities Management, Dan Yanna. However, a snow day on Tuesday, February 24th, forced me to reschedule my interviews with Tom Segar, Shelli Dronsfield, and Alan Perdue. In the mean time, I have been looking up some interviewing information.
According to Valerie Geller and Turi Ryder, authors of the book
Creating Powerful Radio, a good interviewer knows that the interviewee must feel comfortable during the interview (88). In addition many other useful tips are also mentioned by Geller and Ryder such as:
- Having a short greeting and going straight to the point (91).
- Ask how or why questions instead of all simple "yes" and "no" questions (91).
- Don't be afraid to ask a question again if the answer was insufficient (91).
- Focus on the solutions to problems as well as the problems (92).
Other tips were mentioned as well, but I believe these to be the best of them. I plan on keeping these tips in mind while doing my interviews, although I find it easy to "blank out" as far as creating questions on the spot goes (which is why I often have a list of potential questions). Interviewing is actually something I am not so accustomed to, and I actually have only done this two or three times before. However, I believe that with the tips and a little bit of prior knowledge about the subject, I can do a series of successful interviews.
Geller, Valerie, and Turi Ryder.
Creating Powerful Radio: Getting, Keeping, and Growing Audiences for News, Talk, Information, and Personality. Amsterdam: Focal, 2007. Print.
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