Tuesday January 29: the interview part two

DUE DATE: NOT LATER THAN END OF CLASS ON THURSDAY JANUARY 31

OK, so now you have some questions ready for two different "players". For this next step, pick just ONE of these persons or organizations, and try to find some actual answers to your 11 questions for that person

How will you accomplish this? Well, I can think of several possibilities...and being as I'm such a swell guy, here they are:

A) Actual interviews with this person, or a representative of the organization in question.  You can perform a simple search by using the word "interview" plus the name of that person. Likewise, you can probably find a listing of the most important members of an organization by finding their website and then troll through it looking for a membership list. Once you find a name you can use, you can search for that person plus the word "interview"

B) Speaking of websites, these same organization websites often have "FAQ" sections, webpages that have "mission statements" explaining where they stand on various issues, etc etc

C) Another possibility is that these same websites will have a "contact page" where it might be possible to find an email address for a particular person. It is entirely possible that you could send them an email saying that you would like to interview them to get their point of view "for a school project"

D) Also, a "Contact Us" page might have a general form you can fill out where you could ask this same question, and see who -- if anyone -- will get back to you

E) You can also look up "news feeds" such as on Google news (https://news.google.com)  or the BBC  (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/) or FOX (http://www.foxnews.com/about/rss)  or Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/tools/rss)    These all have a search feature where you might find a news story about the person or organization in question; these news stories might have a quote or a statement of some kind which you also be able to use

OK, that should be able to get you started. Go get 'em!

cheers,
Mr. L