Media interview tips
Are you preparing to take part in an interview for media position? In addition to answering media interview questions, the consideration of media tips will help you succeed in the interview.
1. Media interview tips
• Your comments might be taken at face value – and printed as fact.
• Never say “no comment;” this is a red flag to the media. Instead you can say “we are currently looking into that matter and we’ll let you know more when we are ready to release that information”.
• Don’t use acronyms or industry jargon that you’re familiar with – but others may not be.
• Use analogies, stories and “quick bite” answers when possible.
• Use quick, interesting statistics or facts to make key points.
• After all of your interviews, thank the reporter and ask when the story will appear. When it does, make sure to send a hand-written thank-you note.
• Be polite – even if you’ve been kept waiting, or are troubled by some of the questions.
• Never disparage anyone, especially your competition.
• If you don’t know the answer, say that you don’t, but that you’ll get it to the reporter after the interview.
2. General media interview tips
• Determine media trends that is happening in your industry and how to face/solve them.
• Media attributes/traits/abilities related to this job and how to get them.
• The media skills needed to perform this job and how to demonstrated them thorough the interview or other ways.
• Review job specification, job description in job ads for media position and try to think how to prove your capabilities.
• Research the employer profile thoroughly, the aims of their recruitment and what are your roles in their organization and in media department?
In addition to the general tips above, you can find more interview tips of this site in the list below or in the sidebar.
The above tips can be used for vice president, CEO, general manager, operations manager, media director, media assistant, media secretary etc.
3. Related docs to interview tips
• Job interview tips (near 20 posts about job interview such as phone interview, preparation interview …).
• List of common interview questions
• Homepage: interview tips.
Top job interview guides:
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