IT’S HAPPENING! 100 Interviews is going LIVE! in NYC on November 4. Bring everyone you know!
Poster by Danielle Romeo
100 Interviews 1-Year Project: Completed
[Audio doesn’t match my mouth. C’est la vie.]
When I finished interviewing 100 people in a year, I wanted to write some kind of glorious wrap-up.
I thought maybe it could rival the Gettysburg Address in brevity and poignancy, or prove once and for all that journalism isn’t dead. It could bring hope and comfort to struggling writers and journalism majors everywhere: A sort of 100 Interviews fireside chat.
Alas, none of us are Lincoln or Hunter S. or FDR. We don’t have good enough beards, drug habits, or lap blankets.
Poynter.org wrote a really nice and thorough piece about 100 INTERVIEWS! Check it out.
I did a SUPER long interview for this, but it covers basically everything. Really great!
New York Times Uses 100 Interviews Without Linking Back. And Then We Work It Out.
In May, I wrote a piece on 100 Interviews about a couple in Staten Island, Amanda Curtis and Brendan Coyle, who run an art gallery out of their apartment.
Last week, Brendan Facebook-ed me to say that a reporter for the New York Times reached out to them about doing a piece. I thought it was cool. They deserve the recognition. In the message he wrote, “when she came to interview us she asked about your interview and said she was using it as a background reference on us to get aquainted(sic) with our story.” That worried me.
The Times piece came out on Sunday (ironically, the same day I had a small interview in the Times Magazine). The reporter didn’t plagiarize and I’m sure she got all the information from Brendan and Amanda directly but reading the piece, it didn’t sit right with me. The structure was exactly like mine, with no mention of 100 Interviews.
See: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/realestate/what-the-ravens-wrought-habitatstompkinsville-si.html
This is the email I sent to the Times in full:
