Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top You've loaded an old revision of the document! If you save it, you will create a new version with this data. Media Files======Talking to the media====== ====Journalists==== * Have very broad but shallow understanding of the world * You can't expect them to understand many of the issues you deal with, even journalists for specialist publications are often hired from a pool of generalist journalists * Talk to them as you would explaining to friends who are not involved with your subject Journalists are looking for the human angle in what you are doing, how it relates to their audience. Good journalists are also looking for trouble. ====How to present your information==== Talk in stories - "the other day I was playing around with this and .. such and such" this is much easier for people to relate to than abstract descriptions. * Always ask who the audience is, and talk thinking about them, not the journalist * Always ask who else will be present in an interview (sometimes they get people with differing opinions to share the time) * No jargon ====Preparing==== A good way to prepare for an interview is to make a list of all the bad things that someone could possibly say about your story - be exhaustive, as you want to make sure they can't possibly mention something you haven't thought of, and catch you off guard. Then make an exhaustive list of all the good things about your story. Then draw lines between the bad items and the good items, and you have a way to move from bad to good from anything they can come up with. ====TV interviews==== There are 2 types * Interviewer present with you - don't look at the camera * "Down the wire" - to an interviewer in a studio, try to look into the camera at all times - if you look from side to side you look shifty. If you feel uncomfortable and have to look away, look slightly above the camera lens. You will be asked some silly questions at the start for them to get the sound levels right * Always ask who the audience is * Ask what the first question is going to be * Try to lead the interview, you do this by getting something really interesting in the first thing you say, then the interviewer will move away from the questions they have thought of and just ask you about that. Please fill all the letters into the box to prove you're human. Please keep this field empty: SavePreviewCancel Edit summary Note: By editing this page you agree to license your content under the following license: CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International talking_to_the_media.1237300967.txt.gz Last modified: 2009-03-17 14:42by davegriffiths