53-1715 Essentials of Interviewing

Effective interviewing enables you to obtain information, capture dynamic quotes and incorporate personalities into a story. In this course, students develop skills and strategies, including how to land an interview, thoroughly research the topic and subject, get the subject to open up and offer candid responses\, handle follow-up questions, and select and edit quotations. These techniques apply to documentary practices of all kinds in journalism, audio, fiction, creative nonfiction, marketing and other fields.

1 Credits Repeatable