The art of interviewing

ShareThisJournalism.org has compiled a series of articles, tip sheets and guidelines covering various aspects of interviewing. Using e-mail, arranging your questions, "funnel" style interviews and getting anecdotes are just a few of the topics covered. Each is titled and catalogued at the link below, which would be a useful bookmark on any journalist's browser.

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"Unfortunately, I can't show it to you because the Globe has it walled off behind the website's Insider Edition firewall." The Globe's "firewall" is rather porous. Almost everything protected by the "insider edition" key can be easily accessed. I'm amazed the propeller heads at the Globe haven't figured this out. Have any of you?
One can get at the individual stories, but it's more problematic to get at the whole series. In any event, the post is about the series 'Crude Awakenings,' not the Globe firewall.

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