If your a paralegal can you interview a client?

What are some of the best ways a journalist can fully research a client before an interview?

• Answer:

  OK, this might seem like a no-brainer, but maybe it help. Pre-interview research can make a difference between a meaningful article and load of empty phrases. So first, try to find: recent news, Wikipedia, homepage, official bio - this is fairly obvious previous interviews with this person - will give you the idea of how this person responds to various questions, plus you can use this to steer clear off some topics (and follow others) articles, papers, blogs written by this person - you will know their expertise and can ask background or follow-up questions. Plus they will be please to learn you know what they are working on. social networks - too easy if they are active there, and a bit creepy, too :-) opponents, counter-arguments - well, depending on what kind of interview you are going for, you can either play it nice, or you can research opposing points of view and play devil's advocate There are many other tips, but they don't concern the research but rather the sort of questions people tend to answer in an interesting way. Let me know if I should elaborate on that.