1. Interviews Analysis – Charles Manson

Please create a short essay answering the following questions. This does not have to be more than half a page. As long as you communicate your ideas using terms from this week and examples from the interview. Upload your work as a Word document.

What was your impression of how Tom Snyder handled interviewing Charles Manson?

What sorts of questions did Tom Snyder use? (Give different examples and note if he changed styles.)

Did Snyder use interview scheduling? If so, what was his style?

Do you think you would have handled Manson’s agitation and hostility differently than Snyder?

What was one question you would have asked Manson that Snyder did not?

2. Interview Analysis – James Cordon

Please create a short essay answering the following questions. This does not have to be more than half a page. As long as you communicate your ideas using terms from this week and examples from the interview. Upload your work as a Word document.

1. What type of questions did you hear James Corden use most with Paul McCartney?

2. What kind of interview subject do you think Paul McCartney was – open, or needing to be opened up?

3. What were some of the ways Corden worked to build rapport with McCartney?

4. What would you have asked McCartney that Corden did not?

5. Would this type of interview work with any subject? Why?

SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT

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