Video: Interviewing Techniques

The key to many productions is an informative, insightful interview, but so much depends on the skill of the interviewer to get the best out of their subject. Conducting a successful interview is a true art form, and our panel will let you in on the trade secrets to relax a subject, gain their trust, and get responses to the hard questions that provide true insight into the subject.

William (Willie) Weinbaum joined ESPN in 1995 and is a digital journalist and producer of TV feature, investigative and news enterprise reporting for “Outside the Lines” and other programs. The New York City native was a Major League Baseball Productions and Sports Newsatellite feature producer for 11 years, primarily for the “This Week In Baseball” and “ESPN’s Major League Baseball Magazine” shows and news & events coverage for more than 150 subscriber stations. Among the honors he’s received are a Peabody, a Cable ACE, a National Headliner and several national sports Emmys, New York Festivals, Deadline Club, Society of Silurians and Military Reporters and Editors awards, as well as awards from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, the U.S. Tennis Writers Association, the New York Press Club and the National Council on Problem Gambling. Weinbaum earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

Budd Mishkin has been a broadcast journalist for forty years. He currently serves as an anchor for 1010 WINS Radio. Mishkin spent 25 years as an anchor/reporter for NY1 and was one of the journalists who helped found New York City’s 24 hour cable news channel in 1992. He’s interviewed countless artists and luminaries for radio and television and has created and hosted more than 50 nights of conversation at the 92nd St. Y. Mishkin is still trying to become the 47th Beatle.