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　　To be a good interviewer you must learn to listen－both to others and to yourself．

　　“A lot of times we beat ourselves,”says Pat Stith, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for the Raleigh News ＆ Observer．“We don't listen．We don't ask simple, direct questions．We just talk, and we talk, and we talk．We forget why we're there．(We're there to acquire information．)When we're talking, we're not acquiring anything．”

　　Effective interviewing is a pillar of good reporting and writing．The ability to talk comfortably with people and to persuade them to give you information is one of the reporter's most important skills．Yet journalists get little or no training in this vital aspect of their job．Most learn by painful trial and error．

　　To help rectify(调整)that situation, this Best Newspaper Writing brown bag is devoted to interviewing skills．Listen to winners and finalists talk about successful interviewing techniques, practice some of those tips, and explore other resources．

　　“Somebody once wrote that there's no more seductive sentence in the English language than,‘I want to hear your story,’and maybe they're right, ”Albom said in“Best Newspaper Writing 1996．”“Because often you don't have to do any more than just say that．”

　　During my reporting career, using a tape recorder taught me my most important lesson of interviewing：to shut up．It was a painful learning experience, having to listen to myself stepping on people's words, cutting them off just as they were getting enthusiastic or appeared about to make a revealing statement．There were far too many times I heard myself asking overly long and leading questions, instead of simply saying, “Why?”or“How did it happen?”or“What do you mean?”and then closing my mouth and letting people answer．

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