| Abstract: |
The importance of the interview has been growing over the years as a news gathering technique (Shrivastava, 2012). It is now seen more in news columns and, at times, because of interviews, a newspaper scores over its rivals in news coverage. Rogers (2010) remarks that historically, physical mobility was the only means of making contact with the rest of the world but now, the mass media provide a route for imaginative access to faraway places. Similarly, through personality profile interview, the media bring distant celebrities close to their thousands and millions of their fans. Because big names are important and interesting to readers, features written after conducting the personality interview are high in human interest content. Therefore, the twin objectives of this investigation are to help push the frontiers of our understanding in this area, and to raise the competence level of reporters in interviewing, described as “ The first resort of all journalists” (Kamath, 2014, p.10). Though documentary analysis, the paper finds that conducting the personality interview is fun, although it requires all the ingenuity of the reporter to make his subject talk and reveal himself. Among other things, it was recommended that the reporter should carefully choose the eminent person to be interviewed, making sure he will be interesting and important to readers because of his attractive story. |
