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Video

Video 1: Katie Couric on how to conduct a good interview

Description: Katie Couric chats with producer Tony Maciulis about what makes a good interview. “The more comfortable you make someone feel, the better interview you’ll ultimately get.” This video is part of the YouTube Reporters’ Center.

Audio

Audio 1: Black Hawk Down author shares interviewing tips

Description: On the journalism podcast “It’s All Journalism,” Black Hawk Down author Mark Bowden about his journalistic style and gives tips about interviewing.

Web

Web 1: How journalists can become better interviewers

Description: Every day around the globe, journalists pick up the phone or head out of the newsroom. They meet someone, a stranger or a familiar contact. They take out a notebook or turn on a recording device. And then they perform two simple acts. They ask a question and they listen to the answer. An interview has begun. Interviewing is the heart of journalism. Yet too few journalists have ever received education or training in this critical skill.

Web 2: Twelve basics of interviewing, listening, and note-taking

Description: Veteran journalist Roy Peter Clark shares a dozen strategies for conducting news interviews. He notes that these are “basics,” but says he sometimes needs to remind himself of those basics “to climb down from the penthouse and visit the ground floor.”