Interviewees often get irritated when they are interrupted. It’s pointless. Interrupting an interviewee is what interviewers are paid to do. For the interviewee, the important thing is to understand why interviewers interrupt. Of course there are interviewers out there who seem to keep jumping in for no apparent reason other than to prove they are […]
The long and the short of it
It seems obvious. If you can get up on stage and, armed with knowledge and charisma, hold a large audience spellbound for thirty minutes, surely a three-minute broadcast interview would be like a walk in the park. But that’s precisely where many stumble and slip up. When delivering a speech, you have your material to […]
Language differences
Television news journalists don’t like interviewees who churn out jargon. It’s a turn-off as far as the TV audience is concerned. Nevertheless, TV journalists have their own in-house lingo that they use many times every day (though not on the air, one hopes). It helps an interviewee to know what some of these terms mean; […]
