Stelter gives exit interview… via IM
Don Day June 12th, 2007
First he parlayed his success as a blogger into a full time job at the NY Times. Then he gave an interview about the promotion to Poynter — over instant messenger. Talk about breaking molds. Brian Stelter, outgoing editor of TVNewser chatted with Poynter’s Leann Frola for more than an hour. He shared his thoughts on what he’d like to cover, what attracted him to the Times and the power of blogs. Towards the end of the IM conversation, he dropped a quote seemingly ready-made for Lost Remote: “One trend I’d like to cover is the migration of content to the internet. I watch a lot of TV, but I don’t watch it with a remote control anymore, I watch it on my computer.”
5 Comments Add your own
1. discreet_chaos | June 13th, 2007 at 1:46 am
It makes sense for Stelter to give an interview over IM. I know that except for the time, he linked to me after following something from LR, he mostly quoted me from that little tipbox. Though just for the record and for the sake of accuracy: Defamer posted an IM interview with David Cross in March of ‘05, so it’s just taken a long time for other high-profile instances to arise.
(Click my name for a link to the old DC interview about the fate of AD)
2. ! | June 13th, 2007 at 5:01 am
i believe it’s jay rosen who has written about the im-type interview (as well as dave w?)
both cited attempts on the part of the interviewer to extract certain quotes to bolster a preconcieved conclusion the interviewer wanted to convey.
these im-terviews kind of jack the old way of doing things, eh?
readers of the huffington post know this from Mr. rosen’s postings.
3. Scott | June 13th, 2007 at 6:52 am
IM-interviews are a cutesy fad.
Real reporters want more than a typed response to questions, be they press releases, e-mails, or IMs.
4. ! | June 13th, 2007 at 7:09 am
“cutesy fad”?
mark your calendar scott.
5. Scott | June 13th, 2007 at 8:53 am
If it isn’t, journalism will be the worse for it. There is no substitute for hearing the tone of a person’s voice in an interview. Technology has its advantages, but this is not a case in which it’s an improvement.
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