ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at how you develop interviewing skills across a range of different circumstances and formats. In a feature, a single interviewee may well be the subject of the whole piece, and so your interview will be a much more formal affair arranged in advance, ideally face to face, and lasting much longer as you ask more detailed questions in an extended conversation. Broadcast journalists would obviously prefer video call to phone, because it gives them moving pictures of the interviewee. The only format in which this even begins to work is the one designed for it, often with a title such as 60 second briefing with, in which a series of questions are put to the interviewee and they offer brief and often not very illuminating responses.
