[Ipg-smz] Phone interview question

[David Needle]

I've never heard this come up as in issue in journalism or with any editor
I've ever worked.

...," said Tim Smith of ComputerStuff." is completely sufficient.

At some sites, including eWeek that I write for, we make note the subject
talked to us, as in:

... Tim Smith, chief technology officer at ComputerStuff, told eWeek.

But "said in a statement" or some variant of that is needed if you're
lifting from a press release, otherwise it's assumed you are not.

On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 1:02 PM Evan Schuman <eschuman at thecontentfirm.com>
wrote:

> Does it make any sense these days to say—in an editorial story or
> column—that an interview was a phone interview?
>
> I DO see it making a sense when “phone” is being used to differentiate
> where someone said it, as in “not at the news conference I referenced, nor
> in the blog post I quoted from. He said this particular comment during a
> phone interview.”
>
> But when the only source of someone’s quotes is in a phone interview, does
> it make sense any more to say that? If I just quote them without giving a
> source, isn’t it assumed that the source said it in an interview? Any why
> differentiate from a phone versus an in-person interview? From the reader’s
> perspective, what difference does it make?
>
>
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