Brian Stelter, host CNN’s Reliable Sources
1. What is different about working at the New York Times compared to CNN
and which do you like better?
2. What made you sell TVNewser to Mediabistro, and how did you choose that
site as a resource?
3. What makes CNN a good fit for you as a reporter and if you could choose any
other Network would?
Susan Candiotti National Correspondant CNN
1. Visiting the 9/11 museum yesterday I was wondering what it was like to
cover such an emotional story and how do you try to appeal to the audience
while emotions are so high?
2. In 1998 you traveled with U.S. troops to Kuwait what is it like to travel for
work and how comfortable do you feel while doing so?
3. On December 14th 2012 you reported outside Sandy Hook Elementary school
in Connecticut, how can you prepare for such a story when it seems that
anything could happen while you’re there?
Abby Haglage, Reporter, Daily Beast
1. While you are often covering diseases, how much as this whole Ebola
outbreak effected what you are reporting?
2. Marijuana also a very big topic discussed in media today what are your views
on legalization and do you ever incorporate your views into your writings?
3. What is the easiest topic within your coverage at the Daily Beast to report on
and what do you enjoy most about your job?
Stuart Millstein, Head of Sports Research, CBS
1. Reporting at CBS does it seem you focus on one sport more than another?
2. Do you ever feel like you report with more energy on sports you enjoy more?
3. Is it tough to report after your favorite teams lose or win depending on your
reaction?
Margret Sullivan, New York Times
1. You attended both Georgetown and Northwestern University what would
you say was the most useful piece of information you learned while studying?
2. What made you start to pursue Journalism at Northwestern?
3. I enjoyed your 17 Hopes and Dreams for The Times in the New Year how do
you think your job will change in the coming year?
Andrew Martin, Bloomberg News
1. What did Miami do that helped you get to where you are now in the
journalism field now
2. Being a Chicago guy what made you leave the Tribune and do you enjoy
working at Bloomberg more?
3. How is it moving to a more financially minded news station and do you enjoy
it as much as the other two news stations?
Gail Collins, columnist from New York Times
1. When you first started out did you feel like you had to make a name for
yourself in the so-called writing community?
2. What kind of advice would you give to someone who is just establishing
themself as a writer
3. How do you get along with people who oppose your work do you ever try to
shift the way you write to appeal to them?
Beth Stebner, New York Daily News
1. What made you choose Miami University and how well has it prepared you
for life in “the real world”?
2. How did you get your start at the New York Post straight out of College?
3. Being a general assignment reporter at The Daily News what do your
responsibilities entail?
David Marino-Nachison
1. How does your degree in Speech communication help you in you current
occupation at the Wall Street Journal?
2. How competitive is it working at such a big name like the wall street journal
3. Is it tough working at a place that covers news across the world rather than
just in New York
Tom McGeveran, Capital New York
1. How did you and Josh Benson come up with the idea and the motivation to
create Capital New York ?
2. What made you go to Carleton College and how well did it prepare you for
your career?
3. What famous journalist inspired you to be who you are today?
Alie Martell, Cosmo.com
1. My sister is currently at Syracuse what advice would you give her if she were
to look into transferring into the journalism major?
2. What made you slim down your journalism career into solely magazines
3. What is your favorite aspect of the Cosmo magazine?
Lisa Bannon, Deputy Editor, Arts & Culture at the Wall Street
Journal
1. Would you say that going to Miami University got you all these opportunities
in Toronto, Milan, and Paris
2. Do you enjoy editing the Arts and Culture of a paper that has such a heavy
following in Business and finance
3. What would be your advice to someone who is looking to get up to your level
in the world of journalism
Melissa Knific- Associate Food Editor at Family Circle
1. Majoring in English at Miami would you say that was the best choice in
majors to get you where you are today?
2. What is it like being a freelance editor and what does that entail in regards to
who and what you edit?
3. How did you gravitate to French Culinary Institute?
Bill Hemmer, Fox News Anchor
1. Being one of the first to hear about the shootings in France is tough to handle
your emotions with stories as tear-jerking as this?
2. Working at both Fox News and CNN what are the fundamental differences in
mindset and function?
3. What do you do about guests that you don’t particularly appreciate?
Katherine Lehr, Vice President of Operation
1. How did you land a job in such a top spot on a new news program like Capital
news?
2. How quickly after graduating from Colorado at Boulder did you land a job
and how tough was it to find one?
3. What does the title Vice President of Operation full entail i.e. do you ever
write, edit, or work on the Capital New York website?
Daniel Klaidman, Deputy Editor Yahoo News
1. After getting a degree for history how did that transfer into getting a career
in journalism at as nice of a company as Yahoo?
2. Being an editor do you ever read a journalist’s piece that really irritates you,
or is a type of writing that is very tough to keep up with?
3. You seem to work on a lot of pieces regarding Obama and the way he is
carrying out some of his new policies, are politics would you say, one of the
biggest focuses of Yahoo?
David Carr, New York Times
1. What inspired you to begin a book like Night of The Gun, and how much
motivation does it take to carry out writing a book?
2. What do you predict will happen in the world as a result of the whole Charlie
Hebdo situation?
3. What has been your most compelling story and which are you most proud of?
Sam Grobart, Bloomberg News
1. What were the good and bad aspects of the move from the New York Times
to Bloomberg News?
2. How is it making a move from a more whole news station to Bloomberg who
focuses more on the financial aspects of news?
3. How big of an importance is the camera to a tech guy?
Jon Stewart, Writer, Producer, Director, Television Host, The Daily
Show with Jon Stewart
1. Have you ever had to deal with disruptive fans in the audience during one of
your shows?
2. Majoring in Psychology at William & Mary were you ever worried about
landing a job out of college?
3. Have you ever had a joke that has absolutely bombed and how did you
handle it?
Megan Liberman, Yahoo News
1. What advice would you have to someone looking for a way to move up to
chief editor of a big company like Yahoo News?
2. What is the best and worst part about working at a company which is mostly
online?
3. Have you ever been given a work that was so punctually incorrect that you
didn’t think you could fix it?
Cassie Crothers, Yahoo News
1. How did your education at Miami University prepare you for your career at
yahoo?
2. If you could go back in time and change your major would you? Or would you
stich with English?
3. What is the best and worst part about working at a news company that is
mainly online?
Amanda Wolfe, Fitness Magazine
1. What is the best and worst parts of working on a magazine that is all digital?
2. Is there any type of competition in tangible magazines or has technology fully
taken over?
3. Is it important for people working in your company to be in shape if they are
working at a fitness magazine?
Jane Frye, Hearst Digital Magazine
1. How much of a role did Miami University play in helping you find a job
coming out of College?
2. How did you come up with Hearst Metrotone Company and what was your
inspiration behind it?
3. Do you prefer working in the digital world rather than working in print?
Leslie Picker, Bloomberg News
1. How well did the University of Illinois prepare you for work coming out of
college?
2. How was New York University Different than University of Illinois?
3. What made you interested in financial media while your major was political
science?
9/11 Museum
1. How long did it take to build both of the pools in the place of the knocked
down towers?
2. Did you have to get permission from the families to put everyones name on
the memorial?
3. Is there any scientific evidence behind the one tree that survived or is it just
by luck?
It’s Just A Play
1. Who is the best actor out of all the cast?
2. Was it hard to get any single actor to play a part? If so, who and why?
3. What inspired you to write a play about a play?
Katie Couric
1. Since you began as a news anchor reporter and journalist how has the way
women have been perceived in the workplace changed and do you see
yourself as someone who may have broke through the barriers as one of the
first women on T.V?
2. What made you go to Yahoo! News after being at so many well known news
outlets?
3. What inspired you to get involved in the field of journalism?
New York Times Company
1. Do you agree or disagree with the stereotype of the times being more liberal
of a news outlet?
2. Have you ever had very negative feedback from your audience, if so what
was it regarding?
3. What is the most popular aspect of your paper?