Interviews 101
It's the first two questions we ask any person we interview.
What is your name?
What is your job title?
Name any three ways we as journalists can collect research.
Answers vary.
This is what time class ends.
What is 3:50 p.m.?
These were the six people who participated in the final televised English language debate.
Who are Justin Trudeau, Andrew Scheer, Jagmeet Singh, Elizabeth May, Maxime Bernier, Yves-François Blanchet?
SAIT became a school in this year.
What is 1913?
A journalist's should always have these two items at any interview, because technology will inevitably fail them.
What is a pen and paper?
It's what FOIP stands for.
What is "Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy?"
This is how many students were in the class on day 1.
What is 32?
Members of Alberta's Progressive Conservative Party broke away and formed this provincial party.
What is the Wildrose Party?
It's what the Stan Grad Centre used to be called.
The Heart Building.
It's the worst question a journalist can ask.
What is a yes/no question?
It's the primary difference between a topic and an idea.
What is specificity? (Yes, that's a word)
Name any two current provincial ministers and their portfolio.
Answers vary.
The Gateway hosts the occasional trivia night dedicated to this green ogre.
Who is Shrek?
Of all the information provided to us from a source, we only use this amount as direct quotes.
What is 20-25 per cent?
What is the No. 1 question to ask based on the following statement:
SAIT journalism graduates boast a 91 per cent employment rate upon graduation, one of the highest out of the entire school.
Is the employment in journalism or an unrelated field/industry?
It's the year Naheed Nenshi became the city's mayor.
What is 2010?
David Ross earns this much (to the nearest $50,000-mark) as the president of SAIT.
What is $456,009.80?
It's the three primary ways we research information as journalists.
1. Talking to people
2. Online research
3. Reading other news
It's Trevor Bacque's favourite group of people.
Who is this class?
The most recent graduates' survey says this is the percentage of students currently employed in journalism.
What is 43 per cent?