#TalkWithTracy - After receiving a HUGE amount of requests, Tracy has answered the most popular questions asked by YOU. She had so much that she wanted to share with you, so here are just SOME of the Q&As. Watch this space, we’ll post the rest of them shortly! Q: Kairah Rossidis - After you have done an emotional segment Tracy, what do you do to recompose yourself? A: Hi Kairah. It depends. I’ve been known to stop interviews if they become too emotional. Either for me or for the person I’m interviewing. Most people don’t want to be seen crying in public, and it’s a delicate judgement call between showing enough emotion that our viewers are able to see and grasp the rawness of the story that’s being told, and causing more trauma for the person who is telling it. For me, I try to focus at the time on how the other people are feeling rather than how I might be feeling, and then let myself fall apart at home later. Q: Sue Ploog - Hi Tracy I was wondering do you have someone you consider your favourite person to interview? A: Sue I wouldn’t say I have just one favourite. Over the years there have been certain interviews I’ve especially loved, probably because I’ve felt the person has really given themselves over to the interview process, and I’ve managed to tap into a vein of communication with them perhaps. It’s often the case say with celebrity interviews, that you don’t get an opportunity beforehand to establish any kind of rapport with your guest. You don’t even meet them before you walk into the room and start asking questions…so it’s quite a challenge to have them trust you and be generous and not jaded with their answers. With Ellen DeGeneres, for example I walked onto her set in LA immediately after she’d finished recording her show, greeted her, sat down and started asking questions in front of her studio audience. That was our first meeting, and she told me after that she doesn’t love giving interviews, so that could have gone really pear-shaped, but it went brilliantly. On the other end of the scale, I interviewed miners Todd Russell and Brant Webb one week after they were rescued from the Beaconsfield mine in Tasmania. They were still traumatised and in physical pain from being stuck underground and hadn’t even talked fully to their families before talking to me, so it’s fair to say we formed a bond during the four hours of recording. I loved that interview because the whole country wanted to ask those questions, and I was the one privileged to do it. Q: Tick Man - What stories interest you and why? A: I like stories that revolve around an interview where I can maybe peel back the layers of armour that people wrap around themselves to face the world. I think we all hide ourselves behind that armour to a certain extent to feel safe, and if the rest of us can peek behind it we see the true person. I don’t know about you, but I learn a lot about how to live effectively from watching how other people function in the world. How do they face adversity? How do they manage risk? How do they cope with loss? How kind are they? Do they own their faults? I’m especially drawn to stories that shine a light on the human condition, whether they are extraordinary people…or ordinary people thrown into extraordinary circumstances. Q: Matt Napier - Where did you study journalism? I got a cadetship in 1979 at the Leader Group, which was then a family owned independent suburban newspaper publishing company in Melbourne. I worked at the Diamond Valley News, The Doncaster and Templestowe News and The Heidelberger. After two years I was graded and applied for a job at Nine News in Melbourne, which amazingly, I got. Been here ever since! #ACA9
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 03:38:46 +0000
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