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Interview Skills for Children

March 26, 2014 By Johanna Baker-Dowdell Leave a Comment
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Any parent knows children ask a lot (A LOT!) of questions.

 

Of course this is an important way for them to learn about the world around them. I encourage my two boys to ask whatever they want to know. And they do.

 

One of the reasons I encourage questions is that I have made a career out of asking them. I mentioned this to my eldest son’s grade 2 teacher and she asked if I would be willing to speak with the class (and their buddies in grade 5/6) about how I interview people as a journalist.

 

I spoke briefly about the types of articles I write as a journalist and how I would interview someone, and then set them some questions to ask each other. Both classes erupted in excitement and I could see this was going to be fun!

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Filed Under: My Stuff Tagged With: Interview skills for students, interviews, interviews for children, journalism, journalist interview

What To Do When a Journalist Calls

March 27, 2013 By Johanna Baker-Dowdell 7 Comments

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You’ve been working really hard to share your business story at every available opportunity and this effort has finally paid off with a call from a journalist to arrange an interview.

 

As tempting as it is to freak out and avoid the call (yes this does actually happen), the best course of action is to take a deep breath and follow these five tips to help give an interview worth quoting:

 

1. Deadlines – the journalist contacting you for an interview will only have so much time to put the story together. If you are not available within that time frame they will look elsewhere, so always ask when the deadline is and work with it.

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Filed Under: Business PR Tagged With: Business PR, business promotion, journalist interview, media interviews
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