Journalism & Media vocabulary · Interviews and Quotes
Interviewee
Meaning in journalism & media, with examples
/ˌɪntəvjuːˈiː/nounCore term
In journalism & media, interviewee means: The person who answers the questions in an interview, as opposed to the interviewer, who asks them.
In Turkish: görüşülen kişi, röportaj yapılan kişi, konuk
How it is used
Used in journalism training, research and broadcasting guidelines: put the interviewee at ease, check the interviewee's name, the interviewee asked to remain anonymous. On TV, the interviewee is usually called a guest.
Example sentences
Ask the interviewee to spell their name and confirm their job title.
A nervous interviewee often relaxes if you start with an easy question.
Common collocations
put the interviewee at ease
interviewer and interviewee
the interviewee said
brief the interviewee
Related terms
interviewA 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.
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.
vox popA set of very short interviews with ordinary people in a public place, asking them all the same question about a current topic.
