User:David Shankbone/How to get interviews

1. Do interviews. Anyone, anywhere. Make news. Find people locally you think are interesting and interview them. The Mayor, the Police Commissioner, the dog catcher. Make them tell you their story. Find out who they are and what is interesting about them and the job they do. Get them to tell you interesting stories. I live in New York, so it's easier. But the idea that Wikipedia gave me, and that I have transferred to Wikinews, is to look around the world that you inhabit and find something about it that makes it fascinating. 2. Once you do interviews, you have a canon that you present to other people to get more interviews. "You can see my work here..." All of a sudden, you no longer look like some twirp on a website anybody can edit, but like somebody who looks serious and who can accomplish for them something they want: to have what they think, feel, or have done told to other people.