How to Prepare For Media Interviews

In this brief (5 minute) video on how to prepare for media inteviews, Andrew Carapiet from Media Friendly http://mediafriendly.org gives valuable advice on how to handle a journalist when they first contact you and then how to prepare for the questions that may come when you are interviewed. Andrew explains the basic questions journalists ask in most situations so that you can have your answers prepared. You also need to have your message and some key facts ready so that you can explain your side of the story and are not placed on the back foot by the questions.

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People & Blogs

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• interview
• crisis
• media
• training
• public
• relations
• publicrelations
• mediatraining
• crisismanagement
• journalist
• broadcast
• news
• reporter
• communications

[markgeorge312]

He's certainly prepared! Worth listening to, too. Refreshing to hear this sort of stuff without the management speak!