Semester TWO, Blog #1

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/magazine/03Obama-t.html
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1687229,00.html


I think what makes a high quality interview is first a bio of the person being interviewed, like on the Tim Burton interview it gave a background on Burton's life before he became known and what he does now, and also a series of great interview questions that are thoughtful and pertain to what the interviewee does and what you want to know about the kind of work they do. I think that when a writer is finalizing his product he makes sure that he covered all of the questions that needed to be answered and if there were things that he missed and if there was anything that needed to be clarified or re-written he would get the information from the interviewee and then go back over it until he finds that he has all the right information for the article. Also, that he makes sure that the information for the article is informational. I think that these are finished and professional pieces of journalism because they are informational and most of the questions and answers are thoughtfully asked and answered.