interviewing midterms

Discriminative listening

• Look past the words you hear to detect the underlying message

• Recognize the differences in accents, tones, and emphasized sounds

Comprehensive listening

• The understanding of the thoughts, ideas, message

• Making sense of the sights and sounds

Therapeutic listening

• Getting the speaker to disclose difficult situations and feelings, both happy and sad

• Emotional sensitivity

• Non-judgemental response

Emotional sensitivity

Ability to infer emotional state

Critical listening

Hearing what someone says identifying key points and/or arguments and solidifying your opinion

Appreciative listening

Enjoying the story, music, poetry, information you hear

How to handle contentious interviews

• Plan your interview

• Phrase your questions in the right way

• Be objective and factual

• Defend your self from attacks

• Stand your ground

Tips for journalistic interviews

1. Having a list of basic questions to have an idea of things

2. Make your interviewee feel at ease = rapport

3. Ask open-ended questions; avoid closed-ended questions

4. Do not ask double-barreled questions

5. Do not ask long, rambling questions

6. Pay attention to your interview subject

7. Let the subject answer the question

8. It’s okay to say, I don’t understand, please explain

Structured interview

• Well-prepared and fixed questions

• Behavioral, situational, and emotional question types

• Best suited: Quantitative or empirical data; panels/debate

Unstructured interview

• Minimal prep

• questions up to interviewer

• freestyle questions

• open ended questions

• Best suited: Qualitative/informational gathering

Information-giving interview

• Persuasive in interactions

• Purpose: Gather accurate, insightful, and useful info

• Some questions are created prior to the interview, and others on the spot (semi-structured)

Selection interview

Requires a selection process and decision (ex: job interview)

Research interview

• collecting data for research and knowledge

• more beneficial for the interviewer, rather than the interviewee

Persuasive interview

Develops info and insight within situations of direct interpersonal influence

Helping interview

Gets more info on how to help people meet goals (sometimes psychological or health goals)

Leading question

Questions shaped in a way to push for a certain answer

On the record

• All statements are directly quotable and attributable, by name and title to the person making the statement

• Most valuable type of attribution

On background

All statement are directly quotable but can’t be attributed by name or specific title

Off record

• Information is for the reporter’s use only and is not to be published

• The quote or info from the source may not be used in a story or for further reporting