Pre-interview

How it is used

Use for preparation; agree separately whether anything said during it may be quoted.

Example sentences

1. During the pre-interview, the producer discovered that the guest had not visited the site.

   Preparation helps establish the limits of a guest's first-hand knowledge.

2. A short pre-interview helped us choose which diagrams the engineer would need on air.

   The conversation can prepare supporting material as well as questions.

Common collocations

• conduct a pre-interview
• pre-interview notes
• pre-interview call

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.
• intervieweeThe person who answers the questions in an interview, as opposed to the interviewer, who asks them.

More terms: Interviews and Quotes

• quote
• off the record
• on the record
• on background
• vox pop
• transcript
• no comment
• quote approval
• quote mining
• doorstepping
• death knock
• trauma-informed interviewing