How Do You Get Ready For A Newspaper Interview?
A newspaper interview is your big chance to promote your business and all it can offer to the community. Or, it might be an interview to feature your accomplishments in life, either recently or in the distant past. Maybe you’re an elected official facing some tough questions about the decisions you’ve made in office. A reporter will take a different tact with each type of interview, but the people being interviewed can all take some of the same steps to be prepared. Do some digging on the reporter coming to your home. Talk with other people or business owners whom this reporter has interviewed to learn if this reporter is apt to be easy-going or confrontational. Read other stories this reporter has written to get a feel for her style. Prepare the points you want to communicate; this will keep you from getting distracted during the interview and keep your answers on target. Ask the reporter before he comes what the angle of the article is. Knowing the context of the story will give you
