Your teacher may assign you to answer one or more of these questions.  If they are not assigned, you may use them to check your understanding.  Material for answering these questions may be found in Chapter 5.

1. How does the purpose of your product impact your strategy in selecting interviewees and conducting interviews?
2. Assume you are doing a news story on the crime rate in your city.  What are some sources you would consult to do background research?
3. Is it best to use an unstructured, moderately structured, or highly structured interview format in a journalistic interview?  Why?
4. Assume you are doing a news story about student recruitment efforts at your university.   Based on the criteria discussed in Chapter 5, who would be the best interviewees to select?  Why?
5. What types of questions should you primarily rely on in a journalistic interview?   What types of questions should you avoid?
6. What are some suggestions provided in the text concerning taking notes and/or tape recording an interview?
7. Chapter 5 lists several types of "difficult interviewees."  Of these, which do you think would be most difficult for you (and why)?  What would you do to handle this type of interviewee?
8. What suggestions are provided concerning preparation of your story or report?