Katie Couric recommends you adapt your interviews to your interviewee and the subject at hand. You don’t want to use the same flat tone for every single person you’re interviewing, but rather take a tone that would make the interviewee more comfortable, or if you’re trying to be critical, be a little more authoratative with your statements. Being prepared is also important for an itnerview, as if you know general information behind an interviewee, you can go a lot further with what to ask.
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Aside from the first link, the next few are dead (the worldcat one and the pg. 52-60 one), so I’m basing this off of the rest of the links. The scan also had quite a bit of noise, which made it somewhat hard to read, but I managed to get through it. Plus, I obviously haven’t read the whole book, so I may be missing some important context.
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