How to give an interview to the magazine

How to give an interview to the magazine

Representatives of any magazine quite often appeal to the famous musicians, actors, athletes and even owners of the large websites to give an interview. Quite often media persons also look for the edition which will be able to place information on their life. In both cases it is important that the interview turned out interesting to readers.

Instruction

1. Choose the suitable magazine for the publication of your interview. Irrespective of whether you choose it independently, or representatives of any edition already address you, the magazine has to correspond to your field of activity, have rather high circulation (if you want to increase the popularity), to be issued through the whole country or even abroad if it is necessary. It is also desirable that the magazine was already known to public and professionally approached creation of materials.

2. Prepare subjects for discussion in an interview in advance or ask the journalist who addressed you what approximate questions he will ask. Make the plan of a conversation and add to it all main aspects which you would like to share with readers of the magazine. For example, musicians can share information on the planned albums, the last performances and the planned actions, and other famous people – to tell more about themselves and private life about what readers do not know yet.

3. Be ready to spontaneous questions of journalists. To you can set unexpected, personal and even the compromising questions that the interview turned out unique and sated with interesting information. Study the previous issues of the edition, pay attention in what manner materials and by what principles the journalists built an interview were published. Also think that else can ask you and as it is necessary to react to it.

4. Specify final option of an interview before its publication. Some magazines can publish exclusively scandalous articles full is weaved, and others – even to distort the obtained information therefore it is necessary to be ready to protect the rights and to track that the reader was reached by only exact and necessary data.

5. Prepare several last quality photos which can be placed on pages of the edition. Quite often for this purpose the edition employs the special photographer who will make several pictures directly during the interview.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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