{"id":524,"date":"2014-11-24T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/new\/?p=524"},"modified":"2017-07-01T14:51:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T14:51:19","slug":"reporting-tips-from-jacqui-banaszynski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/reporting-tips-from-jacqui-banaszynski\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporting Tips From Jacqui Banaszynski"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"l-content\">\n<div class=\"copy\">\n<div class=\"l-content\">\n<div class=\"copy\">\n<p>At the fourth edition of The Power of Storytelling, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and veteran coach Jacqui Banaszynski offered a few interviewing tips to help reporters become better listeners and tell better stories.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Use all of your senses<\/strong>, they are a very important part of the way we report: smell, sound, sight, touch, body language, tone of voice, how we move.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the things we don\u2019t say when we speak, the stuff that exists between the lines, in the silences. That\u2019s the other way that we communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The most important one<\/strong> is the sixth sense: emotion, that part of ourself that is uniquely human.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThe sixth sense is the thing that allows us to ask the question that our readers or viewers will most have, the question that we all would have, as normal human beings, who wonder how people get through their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The interview is a full body sport<\/strong>, a totally immersion event.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cAnd if you interview well, listen well, you come away from situations fairly exhausted.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Don\u2019t be afraid of the question<\/strong> that you think would be uncomfortable for the other person.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIf you ask questions like this, with context, with genuine openness, without judgment, without presuming the answer, and if people know why you\u2019re asking those questions they often will answer and they often will answer in ways that amaze you.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ask people to show you photos<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cAn amazing thing happens when you ask to see a picture. People will tell you stories about what\u2019s going on in the picture.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Use storyteller questions<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cStoryteller questions are questions that help put people back in the movie of their own life. We live our lives in scenes.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Don\u2019t be afraid to probe<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean you have to be pushy, but it means that for every question you ask, there are layers upon layers upon layers behind that question that you can help people get into by asking additional questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Slow down, don\u2019t rush<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWe rush into a situation, we start asking questions because we\u2019re fearful that we\u2019re imposing on people\u2019s time, we\u2019re nervous about our own insecurities, we\u2019re afraid of looking stupid, so we rush. Instead of stopping and explaining ourselves, telling people what we\u2019re doing and why we want to do it and how we\u2019re going to do it and giving them time to figure out what they might want to say.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Believe in the purpose of what you\u2019re doing<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cYou have to believe that this work matters. You have to understand what you\u2019re trying to achieve and how you\u2019re going to do it because unless you believe in the work, you won\u2019t fully immerse yourself. You won\u2019t be fully present for people.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cAnd the last craft trick is strictly that. <strong>Be present, be fully present<\/strong>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The fourth edition of The Power of Storytelling took place in Bucharest on October 17-18. Read more about how it went and what we\u2019ve learned <a href=\"\/friday-takeaways\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"l-sidebar-sec\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"l-sidebar-sec\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the fourth edition of The Power of Storytelling, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and veteran coach Jacqui Banaszynski offered a few interviewing tips to help reporters become better listeners and tell better stories. Use all of your senses, they are a very important part of the way we report: smell, sound, sight, touch, body language, tone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/reporting-tips-from-jacqui-banaszynski\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reporting Tips From Jacqui Banaszynski<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[41,42,60,125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3043,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/3043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepowerofstorytelling.org\/edition-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}