The Map Magazine

A single conversation with one person can be taken into several different contexts, if it becomes an interview published on a magazine, newspaper, radio or television. A feedback from reading the conversation won’t necessarily follow another from watching it. In a TV interview, the limitations imposed by the recording equipment may weigh down an interviewer. Interviewers are also expected to look the part, short of being telegenic. In the case of radio, audiences might prefer someone with fluency, good pronunciation and razor-sharp enunciation. On the upside, a television interview is able to show the manner with which an interviewee responds to questions, in a way that newspapers or magazines can’t. How an interviewee fields a question speaks volumes about his or her character as much as the spoken word. Magazine and newspaper interviews grant more liberties than TV or radio interviews nonetheless. Since the interviewer may be not broadcasting material, interrupting the subject makes no difference. And because there’s no recording equipment that records one’s every move, print interviews are easier on the interviewer and interviewee, allowing for greater depth of the topic(s) covered.However, it can be a hurdle to jot down direct quotes from newspaper and magazine interviews. Unless the interviewer could write verbatim, a recorder or Dictaphone is ideal. Magazine interviews being feature pieces, they have more atmospherics and refinements than a newspaper interview. Plus, newspaper interviews are relatively shorter than magazine ones as they focus on newsworthy material, not opinions. In any event, notetaking is very vital in conducting a newspaper or magazine interview. In the absence of a recorder or Dictaphone, the notes are one’s only backup when somebody questions the accuracy of the report.

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