Thoughts About Interviewing

When I was fifteen, I experienced what it was like to write for a publication for the first time when I joined my high school’s newspaper. Within the first month, I received my first assignments, and one of them was a piece about a then upcoming law in the State of California that bans the use of cell phones while driving. Seeing that high school is a time when many people start driving, I figured I make it more relate-able by actually getting comments about this new law from students at my school. Armed with a newly bought recorder (and I mean the kind where it uses small cassette tapes to document audio), I set out to do my very first interviews. Little did I know then that I would do many more in the long run.