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Topic: When does an interview go "cold"?
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| amygdala | Posted – 2/21/2008 11:07:41 AM | show profile | email poster I interviewed someone (a yoga teacher) last August, intending to pitch his profile to a variety of magazines. Then I got really busy and put it off (I know ... totally unprofessional). Now I'm wondering if it's too late to do anything with the interview. What's proper protocol here? I think the interview is general enough to remain pretty fresh. Do I need to contact the interviewee to tell him what I'm doing, or update the interview? In case you can't tell, I'm a little new to the journalism thing (coming from an editorial book publishing and copywriting background). Thanks for any insight! |
| WritingEd | Posted – 2/21/2008 12:09:59 PM | show profile Provided he is still a yoga teacher at the same place, I think it's probably still fresh enough to pitch. If you got an assignment on this back in the fall, you'd still do another interview anyhow. You basically just want to make sure that if an editor bites on the story, you're not going to be embarrassed to learn, for instance, that your source has become an x-ray tech, or, worse, is dead or something! |
