At my friendly, local, public library I just found the 2021 book by Jodi Cantor and Megan Twohey titled Chasing the Truth: A Young Journalist’s Guide to Investigative Reporting. Pages 232 to 241 outline their process, which involves use of interviews as follows:
Uncover abuses
Follow the facts
Be specific and precise
Find sources
Prepare for interviews
Research your sources
Establish the ground rules
Be up-front with your sources
Record your conversations
Document your findings
Show up
Double-check
Be fair
Go off topic
Move fast
Never let up
You can read the details at Amazon via their Look Inside preview for that book.
Before you interview you need to prepare by making a list of questions. Attorneys do this a lot, and prepare checklists for the types of cases they do. One type of legal interview in the discovery process before a civil trial is called a deposition. That is out-of-court testimony made under oath and recorded by an authorized officer for later use in court. For example, on March 11, 2021 Karen Koehler has an article titled Deposition of the Defendant Driver – basic checklist.
A cartoon from page 57 in a 1917 book titled F. Fox’s Funny Folk at the Internet Archive was modified and colored in.
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