An interview is a conversation between two or more people (the interviewer and the interviewee) where questions are asked by the interviewer to obtain information from the interviewee.

Contents 1 Types of interviews 1.1 Employment-related 1.2 Others 2 Publications 3 Famous interviews

[edit] Types of interviews

[edit] Employment-related Job interview Case interview Informational interview Exit interview Microsoft interview Webcam Interview

Panel Interviews Two Interviewers One-To-One Interviews [edit] Others ambush interview Cognitive interview Computer-assisted personal vs. telephone interviewing Investigative interview Ladder interview Mall-intercept personal interview Mock Interview Multiple Mini Interview Parent-teacher interview Repertory grid interview Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Structured, Semi-structured, and Unstructured interview

[edit] Publications

Several publications give prominence to interviews, including:

• Interviews with novelists conducted since 1950 by The Paris Review
• Interviews with celebrities conducted by Interview magazine, co-founded by Andy Warhol in 1969
• The Rolling Stone Interview, featured in Rolling Stone magazine

[edit] Famous interviews

• 1957-1960: The Mike Wallace Interview - 30-minute television interviews conducted by Mike Wallace
• 1968: Interviews with Phil Ochs - an interview of folk singer Phil Ochs conducted by Broadside Magazine
• 1974: Michael Parkinson/Muhammad Ali - television interview of Ali in his prime
• 1977: Frost/Nixon interviews - 1977 television interviews by British journalist David Frost of former United States President Richard Nixon
• early 1980s: Soviet Interview Project - conducted with Soviet emigrants to the United States
• 1992: Fellini: I'm a Born Liar - Federico Fellini's last filmed interviews conducted in 1992 for a 2002 feature documentary
• 1992: Nevermind It's an Interview - interviews with the band Nirvana recorded in 1992 on the night they appeared on Saturday Night Live
• 1993: Michael Jackson talks to Oprah Winfrey. This became the fourth most watched event in American television history as well as the most watched interview ever, with an audience of one hundred million.
• 1993: Birthday Cake Interview - an interview of Dr. John Hewson that contributed to the defeat of his party in the 1993 Australian federal election
• 2002-3: Living with Michael Jackson - a 2002-3 interview with Michael Jackson, later turned into a documentary
• 2003: February 2003 Saddam Hussein interview - Dan Rather interviewing Saddam Hussein days before the 2003 invasion of Iraq

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