This highlights something I’ve been thinking about a lot, as newsrooms the world over replicate The Daily. In presenting narrative interviews, meant to narrate the news, what are we doing to signal to the audience that this is something different to an accountability interview? https://twitter.com/nwquah/status/1348998629856473088

IS it something different? When the interviewee is from within the news organisation it’s often just a narrative device disguised as an interview, both sides could even be loosely scripted. When they’re from outside the org it gets murky for me. Accountability should play a role.

And in this case especially where it is an interview with someone who should be held to account, from inside the news org or outside, the ‘narrative’ tape should lie primarily with the host, and the interview tape should be primarily accountability.

Tape doesn’t fall into neat boxes like this so it’s complicated but you know going into those interviews what you want to get out of them.

I think of the times @PatsKarvelas interviewed the ABC MD at times of internal change or strife. It would have been in obvious breach of Ed pols for those to be narrative interviews, where both sides agree to tell the story of the mistakes or changes.