Interview & Conversation Craft
Research, question design, listening, editing conversation into story.
- Lectures
- 7
- Total runtime
- 4h 42m
- Attendance minimum
- 2h 21m
- Prerequisites
- None
Lecture Playlist
Ordered as a teaching progression, not by popularity. Attendance is recorded once half of a lecture has been watched.
- The Art of the Interview (part 1) The craft itself: research, access, trust, and how a question is built 56 min Attended
- The Art of the Interview (part 2) Continuation and audience questions: the harder cases 15 min Attended
- The Art of Active Listening | The Harvard Business Review Guide Listening as a technique with a method, not a personality trait 8 min Attended
- Reporting with Sound - 2013 Christopher J. Georges Conference on College Journalism Interviewing for the recording: voice, listening, and getting usable tape 68 min Attended
- Erika Hayasaki on trauma-informed reporting and celebrating the 'reported essay' The ethics of asking: trauma-informed interviewing and the duty to your subject 58 min Attended
- Pulitzer winner Lane DeGregory on the power of local storytelling From conversation to narrative: finding the story and earning the access to tell it 69 min Attended
- Practicum · working creator How To Interview BETTER: Documentary, Podcast, & Corporate A working documentary director takes his own interview method apart: the pre-interview, putting the question list down, and shaping an answer so it survives the edit. Lecture 3's active listening and Lecture 4's rule that the answer must stand without the question, as one person's working procedure 8 min Attended
Every course reserves one practicum seat, listed last and marked P. It is filled by someone who has shipped the work — here, Mark Bone — because the university lectures establish why something works and the practicum shows it being done under real constraints.