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Setting up an interview

  • 03-08-2005 4:08pm
    #1
    Dooom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭


    First off, sorry if this is in the wrong forum.
    Second, this is all just purely hypothetical.

    Right, how hard is it to set up an interview (for a paper/magazine) with like, a celebrity or some such famous person? I'm curious on this and have a few other questions, does the person being interviewed charge a fee or is it part of their famousness package?
    Also, would it be reasonable to assume that the person's credentials etc. would be checked?

    Cheers.


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  • #2
    santosubito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 495 ✭✭santosubito


    You ring their PR person and ask.

    No, they don't get paid.

    Celebrities are quite happy to be interviewed when they're promoting a book, play, etc.

    It's more difficult to ghet interviews with politicians, in my experience.

    They are usually a lot more guarded.


  • #3
    Dooom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Dooom


    Thanks santos


  • #4
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    Spike wrote:
    Also, would it be reasonable to assume that the person's credentials etc. would be checked?

    Cheers.

    In my experience, yes but it all depends. Don't pretend to be writing for anything you're not, it won't work.
    How hard they are to get all depends on who you know and as already said, what they're selling!


  • #5
    father_ted9t9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 743 ✭✭✭father_ted9t9


    As flogen said, it all depends on which mag or programme you are working for and if it will target the celeb/politicians market audience. Then the other way around it is to get on the Press mailing list for the PR Agencies and then Doorstop them at press conferences. Also sometimmes if there is a press conference you can have a one on one interview at the end of the conference if you strike up a good relationship with whichever pr person is on.


  • #6
    santosubito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 495 ✭✭santosubito


    When I was a student journalist in Glasgow - many, many years ago - people never treated me or my classmates seriously.

    So we had a rule that we never said we were students, instead we were freelancers. There were two reasons: to combat them ignoring us and also because it was important that we realised that we were real reporters.

    What I'm saying is, if you're a student journalist, tell them you're a freelancer.

    I know you said it was hypothetical, but if you are interested in interviewing a specific person you can PM me and I'll see if I can get you a contact number. Hard news is my area, but I can speak to some of my colleagues who do that Showbiz thing.


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  • #7
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    santosubito wrote:
    When I was a student journalist in Glasgow - many, many years ago - people never treated me or my classmates seriously.

    So we had a rule that we never said we were students, instead we were freelancers. There were two reasons: to combat them ignoring us and also because it was important that we realised that we were real reporters.

    What I'm saying is, if you're a student journalist, tell them you're a freelancer.

    This is still the norm by the way, once you say the word student they hear waster. Something that I have repeatedly been stonewalled as a result of and so 'Freelance' is the best solution


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