Interview etiquette - Valleywag Comments

Interview etiquette

Trackback — Fri, 25 May 2007 20:59:39 PDT

Howard Kurtz's May 21st column in the Washington Post was entitled Interviews, Going the Way of the Linotype? "It is a transaction that clearly favors the person asking the questions," he says. (Which is true.)

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Philipp Lenssen — Thu, 03 May 2007 14:00:49 PDT

German Spiegel (arguably Germany's biggest news magazine) does face-to-face interviews where the interviewed party later on gets to edit & agree on the transcript. They consciously don't want to collect "slip ups". I was surprised when I first heard this...

Philipp Lenssen

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Trackback — Tue, 01 May 2007 21:55:23 PDT

It's good news that journalists at the New York Times will no longer participate in the bloated and compromised White House Correspondents Association dinner. Bravo. I await with some curiosity the explanation for what changed in their thinking. So far, there's been nothing.

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Trackback — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:16:01 PDT

The interview is outmoded and needs to be rethought. There’s no better demonstration of this than the recriprocal snipes we’ve been seeing from and around Wired magazine from its attempt to interview people about Michael Arrington. (If you know the tale, skip to the next paragraph.)

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Blackjack — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:25:20 PDT

My gosh, Winer and Jason have been offended. What's with you insensitive people? Somebody please call a waaaaaaaaaambulance.

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edlee — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:42:59 PDT

speaking of the MS brouhaha - the calacanis cast shows that it was pretty much spot on. he does take a fair bit of time to get his point across.

the whole thing is a storm in a teacup though.

edlee

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Brian Lam — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:25:14 PDT

From Vogelstein's blog post (read bottom up):

Great... Let's do phone recording... I can use the mp3 for calacaniscast! :)

Tyler will setup.
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Jason@Calacanis.com | 310-456-4900
www.calacanis.com

-----Original Message-----
From: "Vogelstein, Fred"
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:56:08
To:
Subject: Re: wired story

I would rather tape a phone interview and send you a digital file than do email - and I am happy to do it here. I'll even promise to post it. As for whether it's in your interest to talk to me at all, that is up to you. No one talks to me to do me any favors.
Re irony: yep, though by that def. wired itself is an oxymoron and its circ and ad pages are growing.

Brian Lam

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twig — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:16:04 PDT

On a side note, does anybody else notice that the noise among this little crew of tech bloggers always seems to be most generated by them? They're their own audience, voice, and haters all rolled up in one.

This is key, and a similar reason is why Valleywag is a hard sell. It's not that the Valley is less absurd or narcissistic than other Gawker Media targets, it's that circle is too tight. The people who the posts are about are the same people reading them. In my book, this hamstrings the snark -- the point is to laugh at the circle-jerk, not be part of it.

Anyways.

twig

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Jackson West — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:36:52 PDT

I much prefer email and IM interviews because, as pillsandpez points out, it's easier for me -- just copy and paste. I'd rather fix a few spelling or grammatical errors than have to transcribe.

When I do phone interviews, I record them and archive the recording in case I get accused of misquoting or taking a statement out of context (though, since I live in California, I have to ask before I can hit record).

Jackson West

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Jeremy — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:38:37 PDT

Well, phone interviews tend to be more relaxed. I used to interview PR executives, and preferred to do it only the phone because it was more human and spontaneous, and less messaging.

Plus, well, in the old days there were fact checkers. I would actually go back to my interviews with the post and email them for corrections / clarifications.

Jeremy

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pillsandpez — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:38:02 PDT

Well, you are right. Email interviews are very very common in tech and business media now - not even because of inaccuracy but because it's easier for the journalists.

pillsandpez