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Insights: What I've Learned About Interviewing - Redux

Updated lessons from the years I’ve been interviewing people as a journalist and podcast host.

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Matthew Barr
Jul 22, 2025
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Interviewing Keith Malloy, Newquay, August 2018.

With my 250th episode of Looking Sideways on the horizon, and a rather large Substack milestone also looming, I’m sharing some classic old episodes and blogs from the archive, continuing with this piece on the art of interviewing, which I first published in February 2021.

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