The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "interview technique" ...
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Losening Lips
Nalder says as experienced as he is, he regularly re-reads his own handout about tried and true interviewing techniques.
Tags: interview
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Interviews
This tipsheet begins with a list of things to remember before an interview. The list includes tips such as "Ask open-ended questions" and "Challenge the source." Later, the tipsheet pulls examples of television cops like Joe Friday and Andy Sipowicz. Skertic presents a brief summary of each cop's interview technique and then shows what reporters can learn from them.
Tags: interviewing; sources; research; background; deep background
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Loosening Lips
This tipsheet walks you through the research process leading to a good interview, how to come up with the questions, smooth interviewing techniques, and even how to warm up before your interview. From tapping your interviewee's curiosity to getting them to speak to others, to cornering liars, read about Nalder's experience on the art of interviewing. There are also tips on how to deal with reluctant people and interviewees who say: "no more questions, please," and what information not to feed to your source during an interview. Is there anything else you can do after the news story runs? Read this tipsheet and find out how to make your own work, work for you even more.
Tags: interview; research; question; liar; anonymity; off the record; on the record; clarity; confession; storytelling; source
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Sources and Interviewing
A helpful tipsheet that addresses some of the nuances of the interviewing process. Berens gives ten basic types of sources, from the disgruntles source to the circumstantial source, and tell how best to obtain information from them based on their motives. A few pointers on cultivating sources and interviewing techniques wrap up this helpful tipsheet.
Tags: Interview; sources; news gathering
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Pictures, People Sound & Fact
This tipsheet provides tips for creating good visual effects and conducting compelling interviews and stand-ups.
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Sourcery
"Sourcery: A Reporter's Guide to Finding the Truth," published by IRE, lists helpful hints concerning the arcane art of getting people to tell you the truth, as well as provides a few tips on sorting out what is the truth.
Tags: Interview; Techniques; 3 pages; IRE brochure
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Coaching Writers: Five Things You Can Do Now
Handout gives tips for coaching writers, suggesting techniques like bulletin boards, newsletters and writers groups, interviewing writers, establishing a shared vocabulary and opening the lines of communication.
Tags: 1 page