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Chapter 5 Vocab.
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A person whose business it is to have the best and most reliable information about the topic;
especially important in interviewing.
Primary Source
A question that is structured to allow the interview subject latitude in answering.
Open-ended question
A question built around a word ending in -est-biggest, proudest, greatest and so forth.
-est question
An all-purpose question usable in any situation.
Stock question
An interview set up and planned in advance.
Formal interview
An agreement reached, before an interview begins, that the interviewer will not print the
information that the interviewee provides.
Off the record
A technique for writing an interview story in which the reporter's exact questions are
reported, followed by the source's exact answers.
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