Hard-Knock Journalism

A  list of Journalism pointers, learned through the school of hard knocks.

• A poker face should also be called a journalist's face.
• Being interviewed is as scary as hell. It's a stranger listening to every word you say and any of it may be taken and printed in a place your mom, your neighbor and your neighbor's parrot will read it. A journalist must constantly remember that fact.
• Better pictures and interviews take place when the interviewee is relaxed.
• A journalist must soffen the interviewee's defenses and get them to open up at the begining of the interview.
• During an interview, a journalist must be honest, impartial, probing and reassuring. This is a contradiction. This is why they call interviewing an art.
• "Talking to a reporter is a matter of trust"~My Editor
• Always fact check