Is this the year you focus on getting quality video interviews for your Web presence?
Katie Couric gives advice on how to be a good interviewer. The five minute video is a springboard to Google’s new Reporters Centre channel http://www.youtube.com/reporterscenter which aims to help make citizen journalism more mainstream.
The gist of Katie’s advice on How to Conduct an Interview:
- Put people at ease.
- Calibrate your tone.
- Know your interview subject.
- Go with the flow. Be prepared to shift direction.
- Listen well and respond authentically to responses from your subject.
- Serve your audience and don’t get in the way of your subject sharing their story.
Got any other advice to getting great video interviews?
Links:
- Have a gander at The Uptake’s video instruction on how to organize a citizen journalism project that uses video.
