I've been thinking a lot about our upcoming assignments, the death story, the profile, our final project. I know that as journalists, we will have to do stories about people we don't know. That's pretty much a given. But, since we are interviewing people solely for an academic setting, why will these people we don't know want to spend their time letting us interview them?
I feel like the main reason people like to be interviewed is because a story about them is going to be published. With this class though, there is no guarantee that our story will be published anywhere. This basically makes our stories purely academic.
So, my big question is, will people be willing to give so much of their time to us when they get nothing out of the time? Maybe I'm being a little cynical of people. I think I'm just a little afraid to go beyond friends and family, for fear of rejection, or fear that the interviewee won't be willing to give me enough time for me to get the information I need.
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I have the exact same worry!
ReplyDeleteCamara,
ReplyDeleteyou'll never really know how people will react unless you approach them. You might be right and some people might reject the interview idea, but we can't say everyone will react that way.
When you approach someone, tell them this is for a journalism class, and if you write a really good story, you want to try and get it published in the school paper, so that might be encouraging as well.
I know you guys are nervous to venture outwards, but I really feel this is a good time to start doing that.