Journalistic Context

Print:

       Print interviews are in the format of text which are mainly found in newspapers and magazines, but are now lately becoming more popular on the Internet to reach a wider audience. Print interviews cover different purposes depending on their context. For example, a magazine such as “OK” magazine context is known for sharing the latest gossips and pictures of celebrities, the purpose for this magazine will be promotional as the interviews in the magazine will be based on celebrities, magazines are mainly  informal and has more visual context. On the contrary a newspaper interview will often be hard news as they are more likely to be interviewing politicians or witnesses for a certain topic. In terms of the internet, it will be an analogy to a newspaper or magazine, depending on whether it is the website version of a newspaper, like the Daily Mail magazine version. Within print interviews you have feature-writers and editorials. Feature-writers are pieces of print that are usually a double page spread. Editorials are people who write create print on a timed basis and usually express their opinion. Editorials can be the main editor of a magazine writing their words on the first page or someone who writes for a paper on a weekly basis or month depending on how the Print is published.

 

Television:

Television interviews cover a wide variety of interviews massively. These could be news, real-life people, documentaries and sport. Television interviews cover a variety of purposes and styles. In comparison, to chat show and radio interviews, news is extravagantly meant to inform the public on current on-going situations and affairs, regional and world issues. A news program will often have interviews which cover hard-news topics, with witnesses, politicians, or someone who is an expert in the news topic being discussed. This will be in order to inform the general public, and to also show them an emotional response from some of the people most affected by what happens in their region and the world. In news interviews, the questions will often be quite closed as they are usually on an extremely strict time frame necessarily only lasting around 30 minutes by going straight to the point in order to not waste any time, particularly with politicians.

 For example David Cameron is interviewed by Andrew Marr, most the interview on issues to do with Europe. Andrew mars do not waste time by starting with development questions or confidence building questions, he automatically goes straight to the point asking questions the public are most concerned about, and in this case the issue is whenever or not the public can trust David Cameron to negotiate a transformed relationship within the EU and give Britain a referenda, for this kind of topic the interviewee will straight away start with key questions which are open questions as the issue is something that affects the public and the interviewer task is to gain as much information as he possibly can for the public benefit .

 

Radio:

Radio interviews have various different topics and subjects, used to entertain the viewers and listeners at home. Like television interviews, radio is divided into genres, in which the audience can tune in and listen to, depending on what they preferably like. For example Key103 or Capital FM hardly covers hard-news and rarely have interviews. The majority of the time is mainly for the audience entertainment, however they also use closed questions when asking witnesses or experts on a particular incident, as the news is of less priority than entertainment interviews so therefore have a much smaller time slot. Radio stations often cover a more entertainment based interview style, as they will invite artists onto their show to interview them. It is vital to introduce the interviewee as on the radio no one can see who the interviewee is before the start of the interview, so this will make the audience to have more knowledge on the artist who is being interviewed. The artists will use this interview for promotional reasons, to promote their new single or album. Radio stations like Key 103 often play a long interview with someone popular over five weekdays. In these interviews the questions will often be open questions as the interviewer will want to get as much as possible from the interviewee in order to maintain the audience's interest and for the interviewee to promote themselves as much as possible. Despite it being a radio interview interviewers still have to use and maintain good body language and say the occasional 'yes' or nodding to prompt the interviewee and so they sound interested to the listeners, this is the key to have a successful interview and also smiling is an attribute from a journalistic context.

Online:

 As the years have progressed everything can now be seen and read online. Many newspapers and magazines now have their articles published on their official websites online, this was done in order to reach a wider audience, it is update, a lot faster and also sometimes free which enables people to do it on the move since technology has massively progressed.  Online interviews can be written or filmed. They can appear on websites or blogs which the context can often be hard-new or light-hearted. Websites such as YouTube enables many people to upload famous events interviews such as the red carpet. Catch up TV is also often found on the internet nowadays, where you can be able watch programs such as Match of The Day, Jonathan Ross Show, etc. after it has been broadcast on Television. Furthermore, celebrities often have their own website where there will be interviews published. This will be a way of them interacting with their fans and promoting anything new they might have coming out.

 

In this interview Jennifer Lawrence is interviewed at the red carpet for being nominated for the Oscars award, this interview gives her fans the opportunity to see and hear how Jennifer Lawrence felt before she won the Oscar and also the type of outfit she wore for the ceremony.