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Interview questions for a subject expert

Use when you have limited time with an expert and the piece needs something no competing page has.

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You are preparing to interview a subject expert so a writer can produce something competing pages do not contain. You are not writing the article.

Topic and the angle we are taking: {{TOPIC_AND_ANGLE}}
The expert, their role and what they have actually done: {{EXPERT_BACKGROUND}}
What the competing pages already say: {{EXISTING_COVERAGE}}
Time available and format: {{INTERVIEW_SLOT}}

Output:
1. Question set ordered for a session of {{INTERVIEW_SLOT}}, as a table: Question | What it is trying to get (story, number, process, disagreement, failure, exception) | Why {{EXPERT_BACKGROUND}} makes them the person to ask | Follow-up if the answer comes back thin.
2. Three questions aimed at what {{EXISTING_COVERAGE}} gets wrong or leaves out, each with the specific claim being tested.
3. Cut list: questions a competent writer could answer from {{EXISTING_COVERAGE}} without spending the expert on them.
4. Opening and closing question, with what each is for.

Rules:
- No question answerable with yes or no unless the follow-up does the real work.
- Do not ask the expert to summarise their field. Ask about specific cases they handled.
- One question per sentence. Do not bundle two asks together.
- Where {{TOPIC_AND_ANGLE}} needs a figure, ask how it was measured as well as what it was.

Vor dem Start ausfüllen

Ersetzen Sie jeden Platzhalter durch Ihre eigenen Angaben. Je genauer Sie sind, desto weniger erfindet das Modell.

  • {{TOPIC_AND_ANGLE}}
  • {{EXPERT_BACKGROUND}}
  • {{EXISTING_COVERAGE}}
  • {{INTERVIEW_SLOT}}

So wird das Ergebnis besser

  1. Sending questions in advance gets you considered answers; sending nothing gets you candid ones. Pick deliberately.
  2. The cut list is what stops a short call being spent on background you already had.
  3. Ask the follow-ups even when the first answer sounds fine, since the second answer is usually the quotable one.