Interview Skills and Article Writing for Content Creators The University of Sydney

Overview

For bloggers, marketers and journalists, interviewing is a valuable way to obtain fresh new content. Interviews add perspective and texture to articles and recordings in a way that can’t be matched by other research forms. Best of all, original interviews give your audiences content that’s not available anywhere else – only on your platform.  

However, the success of your interviews depends on your rigorous prework and expert conversational skills. In this one-day workshop, you’ll learn a range of techniques that professional journalists use to draw out stories that are engaging, informative and factually correct. 

What you will learn

By the end of this Interview Skills and Article Writing for Content Creators course offered by University of Sydney, you should be able to:

• learn how to prepare for interviewing success, by researching the back-story in a way that allows for a dynamic conversation rather than following a strict line of questioning 

• gain first-hand practice of live interview skills, such as building rapport, active listening, interpreting body language, and asking questions that encourage an open-ended response 

• practice a range of article formats, from the classic Q&A style to the case study and thesis-type article