6. Why bother?
Journalists can help to have
impact with your research
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7. Train how to:
Be in charge of the interview
Be able to get your key message across
Speak in the language of your target
audience
Formulate in a clear, convincing and credible
way
12. Imagine yourself as a journalist
Your assignment: interview me about my research on
behavioural targeting, a.k.a. personalized
advertisement on websites based on an individual’s
web-browsing behaviour.
Choose your medium
(e.g. newspaper, popular magazine,
radio/television show (not a scientific one!))
Make up some questions you think are relevant
39. Prepare to be interviewed
What kind of medium (newspaper, tv show, …)?
What kind of audience?
What is the news value of your story?
What is your message (max. 3 key messages!)?
What do you think the journalist will ask?
Is there anything you don’t want to talk about?
I will interview you