An interview is a conversation between two people, an interviewer and an interviewee, where the interviewer asks the interviewee questions to get information on the person. A journalistic interview is different from other interviews because in journalism, you might not reveal your sources. Also when you interviewing someone in a journalistic interview, the article will not be about the person you are interviewing. To prepare for an interview you must know what questions you're going to ask. You can't just make up the questions; interviews are supposed to be fast. Things you have to remember when you are interviewing the interviewee are think about what you ask the person. One bad question and the interview is over. Find an interviewee that you know will give you some details, once they see how much intelligence you have they'll give you more information. Ask them questions that will make them tell you what's happening in their perspective. Remember to ask a follow up question so that the interviewee will give you more information about the same idea. After the interview you should read over what you have and make it into a good opinion on whats happening. You use the information from the interview by stating that someone said this or someone said that. For example, you could say, "This person says that the school should have a longer sports season." Some information about interviewing is write down whatever you feel is good. Don't write EVERYTHING word for word or you can't keep up.
Wikipedia,
http://www.wikipedia.org/, September 17, 2012
James Glen Stovall,
Journalism, Pages 142-143, 156-162
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