NOTED: Old hands advise the new

Allan Lee
2013 Pacific Journalism Review – Te Koakoa  
The best journalists are invariably good interviewers, whether they are interrogating a Cabinet minister or getting a shy refugee to open up about her struggle to find work. Excellence in interviewing comes with experience. So when the visiting scientist lapses into technical jargon at his press conference, it's usually the most experienced journalist in the room who asks 'the dumb question'.
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