Interviews At Pizzazz Magazine
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Interviews at Pizzazz Magazine

Publisher Don Lemmon

The interview is one of the most valuable parts of my magazine. It can give a voice to even the most inexperienced interviewee. A good interviewer can take someone with no previous public relation, and help them to communicate their point of view. The interview also helps to make use of the personal nature of the internet.

The interviewer becomes the representative of the reader, and allows them to hear what interests them from people they would otherwise probably never meet. In other words; ask questions the listener would want to ask. The interviewer has the difficult job of encouraging the interviewee to speak, yet at the same time retaining control of the interview.

However, the whole aim of the interview is to give the interviewee a chance to speak, or even if we must persuade them to speak. It is natural therefore that the interviewee should be the most important person, and the interview should be so conducted that they give their best. So, of primary importance in an interview is the relationship between interviewer and interviewee.

The quality of this relationship will to a large extent govern the results of the interview. Yet these two people are not the only ones involved. Remember again the reader; if he or she is excluded from this relationship they will lose interest. The relationship between all three should create a 'circle of trust' where each believes in the other.

Many famous interviewers have said that the key to their success is that they learned to listen well to the interviewee. The trick to interviewing is certainly knowing how to listen without criticism. If the interviewer is listening really attentively to what's being said, and picking up clues about the way the interviewee is prepared to go, then we know what the subject is prepared to talk about. In other words, we are here both for the reader and the person being read about. Enjoy reading them or, if you feel you have somethinng to contribute: CLICK HERE