Great interview skills are the most important tool in any journalist's kit. Nail an interview and you're on your way to making the most of a story. But it's not always as easy as that. Interview skills take decades to hone and refine. There's a reason why the UK's top journalists are also the best interviewers.

In this WiJS Zoom masterclass we will be joined by three of those journalists - Marion Scott, Audrey Gillan and Laura Kuenssberg. They will share their tips, tricks and advice on how to maximise any interview you do, no matter if it is a ten minute Zoom or an hour in-person.

THIS WORKSHOP WILL COVER

- How to put interview subjects at ease

- How to ask difficult or delicate questions

- Why sensitive interviews need a different approach - and how to do this

- How to get what you need within a short time frame

- How to pull out the tiny details that bring a story to life

- How to turn quotes into great copy

- What to do if an interview goes wrong

- Common interviewing mistakes and how to fix them

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Laura Kuenssberg presents the BBC’s flagship interview show on Sunday mornings on BBC One. That followed a seven year stint as the BBC’s first female political editor, during which she reported for a wide range of BBC programmes, made a number of successful documentaries and won multiple awards

Marion Scott is a multi award winning journalist and Chief Reporter at Scotland’s top family newspaper, The Sunday Post. She has previously won Journalist of the Year, Reporter of the Year, Campaigning Journalist and The Nicola Barry awards at the Scottish Press Awards and has twice been runner up in the Prestigious Cudlipp award

Audrey Gillan is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster. Her recent BBC Scotland podcast Bible John: Creation of a Serial Killer won gold and silver at the New York Festivals. As a young journalist she was a recipient of the Laurence Sterne Fellowship and worked on the Washington Post. She was awarded the What the Papers Say foreign correspondent of the year whilst embedded with British troops in Iraq for The Guardian

The masterclass will be chaired by WiJS chair Gabriella Bennett

TICKETS

To buy tickets please click here. It is possible to buy a recording of the event. This will be sent to you the day after the masterclass has taken place. Please select the 'recording' ticket option.

A discount is available to WiJS members. Please select the 'member' ticket option.