[Ipg-smz] Phone interview question

[Swapnil “Swap” Bhartiya]

Do notes have any value? I can write anything I want? 

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> On Dec 9, 2018, at 4:54 PM, Tom Henderson <thenderson at extremelabs.com> wrote:
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> The only issue is plausible deniability, which a phone interview might have-- if you didn't tell the interviewee you were recording and have that proof. The others are presumed to have a source origin. Verbal conversations are subject to your notes, which you always keep, in case there is litigation. 
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> From there, you can say "in a phone interview" but that information is superfluous. 
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> Tom
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>> On 12/9/18 4:01 PM, Evan Schuman wrote:
>> Does it make any sense these days to say—in an editorial story or column—that an interview was a phone interview?
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>> 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.”
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>> 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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