E-Mail and Phone Interviews - a podcast by Erdem Koç

People are more accessible online, but does that make them more interesting? What is gained, and what is lost when we can’t see the people who we’re interviewing?

These days, more and more interviews are done by phone and email, but as we’ll see in this lecture, this trend has its dangers as well as benefits. Electronic interviews might be well suited when it’s simply information that is required for a story, but what about when we to probe the subject?

Erdem will also outline some of the challenges journalists face when interviewing people who have a disability, are from a cultural and linguistically diverse background, who have experienced trauma and others.

In the second hour, we'll be joined by David Lowden, who heads the sports journalism degree at La Trobe, and also works for the St Kilda Football Club in advising their communications team.

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