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Discussion on: Media Interview: Aspects which are and aren’t under your control

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Doing interview is not a conversion, it is not a confession. It is the most artificial participatory activities you have even in. So you got to know that the personal interview you have most probably Google you. After Google them, you find out what types of stories they write/speak in national media, or radio, you may have similar background, look him in LinkedIn, find out what they like to write about, create some commonality and also called by a first name as an interviewer, they loved that (Chilton, 2017). Personally knowing them is very easy to face interview and those things really help to make better environment at interview time. We have to know about who is taking our interview, before giving the interview we do some research on their nature and, process. For example, we have to know about who are taking our interview either Bhusan Dahal or Rishi Dhamala. Different media persons have different qualities. If we are going for an interview without doing any research of interviewer may danger for us. We have many bad interviews scandals are like Former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba interview in Kantipur Television and Current MOIC Minister Gokul Bastakoti interview against Ram Thapa. Interviewer always be in a ready position with strong evidence so you have to defend them through evidence not to use power.

Remember that reporters are trained to control the interview process as well. We can see it every day on the news whereas veteran reporters or news anchor steers upon interview along with the narrative they want to story to flow along (Arenstein, 2016). So first you always starts your media interview to tell stories. Because stories are really interesting and powerful to deliver the message.

Drying the interview listening is the most important (Fisher, 2015), you should listen to interviewer completely then after only you can explain the message with evidence, example and case studies. You need to think, carefully about the key message you want to get across and how you can support and explain the message with examples and case studies.

Drying the interview the interviewer asks you a question that’s not directly related to the topic, you need to make a point the conversation back to your message.

References

Arenstein, S. (2016). 6 Tips for Giving a Great Media Interview. Sage .

Chilton, G. (2017). 3 Ways to Handle That Media Interview Like a Pro. Entrepreneur.

Fisher, A. (2015). 5 ways to control a media interview. media first (specialist in communication training) 0118 918 0530.