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Interview

Meaning in journalism & media, with examples

/ˈɪntəvjuː/nounCore term

In journalism & media, interview means: A meeting or conversation in which a journalist asks someone questions to get information, opinions or quotes for a story or programme; also the published or broadcast result.

In Turkish: röportaj, söyleşi, görüşme

How it is used

Journalists request, arrange, conduct and record interviews; people give or grant an interview. Interview is also a verb: we interviewed the head teacher. Types include phone, live, exclusive and sit-down interviews.

Example sentences

  1. The coach agreed to a ten-minute interview after training.

  2. We interviewed more than thirty residents for the housing story.

Common collocations

  • give an interview
  • conduct an interview
  • exclusive interview
  • phone interview
  • interview request
  • intervieweeThe person who answers the questions in an interview, as opposed to the interviewer, who asks them.
  • quoteThe exact words that someone said or wrote, repeated in a story inside quotation marks; as a verb, to repeat someone's words and say who said them.
  • transcriptA written or printed copy of exactly what was said in an interview, speech, broadcast or recording.
  • off the recordSaid privately to a journalist on the understanding that it will not be published, or at least not linked to the person who said it.

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