May 25: Interviewing Tips

By Sankriti Krishnan

The day started with the usual newspaper reading sessions but today the focus was on one article related to the Air India IX-812 flight crash. It had a large photo of a 4 year old girl who had lost both her parents in the crash and there was a report on the funeral.

We first looked at it in ‘The Hindu’.

The main focus was on the large picture that accompanied the article, which spoke more than the article did. It also spoke about the photographer’s mind - to pick the right picture to take in a very sensitive situation.

A report on the same subject from ‘The Times of India’ was also read which helped point out the contrasting differences between the two reports and the pictures.

Then we moved on to the various aspects of interviewing - we were told of tips that we need to prepare for and conduct an interview.

A mock interview was also done where we interviewed our colleague Mridula. It was an exercise to use the skills we had got to learn. All of us had to take down notes while the interview was on and we analysed our responses too.