Thursday, May 3, 2007

Interviewing Skills

Reported by Rhea Banerjee

The day's class started off with Vincent D' Souza making us students read the day's news stories and discussing each story in turn.

A few stories caught our attention but a particularly interesting one was about an event that took place in Virudhunagar, a district of Tamil Nadu, about a hen which had been run over by a motor cyclist. The owner of the hen started abusing the motor cyclist. More people joined in and soon this small incident had turned into a big fight. Many people were injured, properties were destroyed and the police had to come into action.

Vincent went on to discuss the various types of interviews (1) by appointment; (2) in a news conference; (3) on the spot interview; and (4) phone interview.

He also discussed ways to prepare for different kinds of interviews.

After class, we chatted about the different colleges which offer journalism courses. He referred to Asian College of Journalism, Manipal Institute of Communication and courses at city colleges like MOP Vaishnav.

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