Week 3

 This week in class we discussed and practiced interviewing. Interviewing is the main way that a journalist collects information and later shares it with the public in the form of a news story. Different types of interviews are needed for soft and hard news. Fact and opinion interviews relate more to hard news, while the human interest interview is typically used for soft news or feature pieces (Sedorkin, 2011). I much prefer in-person interviews, but because of my speech impediment, this can be more of a struggle, which means I will probably do more email interviewing once I am working as a journalist professionally. 

Sedorkin, G. (2011). Interviewing: A Guide For Journalists and Writers.