Title: Creative interviewing : the writer's guide to gathering information by asking questions /
Authors: Metzler, Ken.
Publisher: Allyn and Bacon,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Interviewing in journalism.
Abstract: Filled with anecdotal examples from actual professional experiences, Creative Interviewing shows how to turn interviews into writing that make scenes and incidents come alive in the reader's mind. Metzler offers step-by-step instructions on how to prepare for and conduct a good interview, how to obtain dramatic anecdotes from sources, how to cope with dynamics of a series of interviews with certain topics.
Contents: What's your interviewing problem? -- What is an interview? -- The ten stages of the interview -- Elements of the interview : a case history -- Asking questions -- The controversial dynamics of interviewing -- Being interviewed -- Planning your interview -- Lessons from failure -- Learning to listen -- Journalistic observation -- Interviewing for quotes and anecdotes -- Telephoning, note-taking, and taping -- Special problems -- Electronic aids to interviewing -- The broadcast interview -- Covering a newsbeat -- Multiple-interview projects -- The personality interview -- Ethics of the interview -- The ten steps towards truth.