9 thoughts on “JOURNAL # 14

  1. What I liked about this article, was learning the head of someone who is usually in someone else’s head, the person who is usually asking the questions, is answering them and how she handled her answers. I also liked learning the mindset of someone who interviews for a living, how they prepare and how they handle things.
    What I learned about Terry is the road she took to become in the position she is now, what events led up to her to be doing what she does now. I feel I learned about Terry as a person as well, why she does what she does, how she became so good at it.
    One question I would ask Terry is, who are the people she interviews? Are they just random people that call, or are they people she set-up interviews with?
    Another question I would ask her is how does she prepare her questions or what type of questions does she ask?

  2. What did you like about the article?

    Personally what I had liked about the article was how it was set up. What it had done was it had a question above that was bolded and then it was followed by the response that she had given to the interviewer. Another thing that I liked was it started off as to how she got into the radio type of interviews and then she gave a brief background of how and why she did.

    What did you learn about Terry Gross?

    One thing that I had learned was she does her interviews remotely and she feels personally she likes to be invisible but she feels as though it is more intimate to have a conversation over the phone. She said that she is a very self conscious person and prefers to keep things via phone or headphones. It keeps her in her calm place to know that she does nit have to one on one face the person she is interviewing.

    What questions would you ask Terry Gross?

    At any time was there a point in your career where you wanted to stop interviewing? If so why?

    I think that this would be a good question to ask due to the fact that the questions that were asked for the interview we are reading were all about the positives of her career. There was no bad question or super personal question.

    Have any particular guest who have struck you personally while interviewing them?

    I think this is a good question to ask due to the fact that in her interviews she does try to add her own personal experience to try to get that connection/comparison with the interviewee and I would like to know if there are any that she felt ha personally touched her by what they had said or responded to her question with.

  3. Alex Case

    What I liked about this article is that it was very organized and flowed very nicely. There was questions followed by an answer so you really got to see the vocal point in what they wanted to express in that paragraph.

    One thing I learned that I would not have expected her to say about herself ( Terry Gross) is that she herself is very self conscious and does not like to do things face to face most often. Someone who is so known for interviews you would never expect them to not like real life interaction. She prefers to stay behind a phone to get close to someone when she interviews them which I thought was very different.

    One question I would ask Terry Gross is why she feels it is a better idea to keep everything behind the phone, and when did she realize that is what works best for her?
    A second question I would ask Terry Gross is if she only like over the phone interviews what would it take for her to do a face to face and how does she think it would effect the interview if it was in person?

  4. Alex Smyth:
    What I enjoy about this article is the structure of the interview with question that were personal to Terry so that they had honest answers coming forth. Another thing I enjoyed was how was how natural the conversation felt when reading this article so I can picture how the interview went.

    What I learned from Terry’s interview was despite her convince in talking to others, she seemed to enjoy playing the invisible role. One she maintained and even listed reasons why being invisible was so great. Preferring to live in her head than in her body. Having mind over matter.

    I would ask Terry what was her hardest interview and what made that interview so difficult? If you had the choice to change your show in anyway what might that change be or why would you not change how the show was operating? What motivated you to keep interviewing others?

  5. Journal 14
    What I liked about this article was that Terry did not originally start off as a radio host. She started of as a high school english teacher for six weeks then got fired and that’s when she discovered her passion for radio.What I learned about Terry is that she self-conscious. Terry give us an example of how if it was a room full of people she will like to be invisible and not the center of attention in that room. Which I didn’t know because you would think that someone whose on the radio wouldn’t really be self-conscious.If I can ask Terry Gross question I would ask her how do you deal with being a pretty well known person as an interviewer on the radio, where people probably heard your voice thousands of times. When she gave the example of how she rather be invisible and not the center of attention I just want to know how did she cope with that amount of attention on her.

  6. In the interview with TerrY gross i enjoyed reading the part about how she is capable of getting her interviewees to talk about personal things with her over the radio. However, her intention wasn’t to make the interview uncomfortable or emotional. I also found it interesting that people had a certain image of what they expected her to look like. I learned that Terry is a very compassionate woman. When she interviews her readers she wants to get a sense of what their life is like in their shoes. She describes herself as someone who listens rather than outdoorsy. She would rather be reading things. I also learned that she is short and most people expected her to be tall, but where surprised she wasn’t when they meet her. I would ask Terry Gross the two questions, who did she enjoy interviewing the most out of the thousands of people she’s talked to and why. Also, who’s story or life she connected or felt emotion towards most with in an interview and why.

  7. what I liked about this is that the flow of the article was great and the way it all fit all together into one good interview.
    what I learned from the interview was that she liked having that mind over matter mentality and liked to be in her head and not in her body she was very good with that.
    One question I would ask would be what was the hardest interview you’ve ever done and what made it so difficult for you? Also if you could go back and not a question to certain person what person would it be and why?

  8. 50 words: What do you like about this article?
    One thing that I really liked about the article is Terry Gross will answer any question that the interviewer has for her and she’s very open to sharing what it’s really like to be an interviewer. She also talks about the struggles she has as an interviewer and how it can be hard at times for her to ask those hard questions and to really show that emotion and get into it.
    50: What did you learn about Terry Gross?
    I learned to live live live my life and to not worry about problems that you may have just focus in the moment and on now. She openly talks about the challeneges that she has being an interviewer and that you forget to kind of pull back a little bit and put everything in perspective and realize it’s the only life you have and make the best of it.
    50 words: What questions would you ask Terry Gross? (2)
    If you could do it over again what would you do differently?
    Is there anyone she is dying to interview and dig deeper into their story.

  9. 10-17-18

    Journal #14

    What did you like about this article?

    One thing I liked about this article was be able to see what brought Terry Gross to radio. Being able to see why she chose to do radio and interviews. Then i also likes the flow of the text itself. You had the question or topic bolded so then you knew what would be talked about in the paragraph below. That made the flow easy to follow and made the conversation more interesting to read.

    What did I learn about Terry Gross?

    I learned that Terry is a very self conscious person. Instead of face to face she likes to interview people over the phone. When you think of interviews you think that they are mostly face to face and filmed. So to hear that Terry did over the phone interviews was really interesting because she then had to learn new techniques to get her questions answered.

    What questions would you ask Terry Gross?

    What has been the hardest interview you have done? What made it a hard interview? How did you get through it? Did you ever follow up with that person or people?

    Have you ever regretted choosing an interviewing career? Did you ever want to do something else? What was your childhood dream job?

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