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Learn to Interview

“A Writer’s No-Nonsense Guide to Interviewing,” is designed for writers, journalists, and travel writers.

What’s holding you back? Do you yearn to see your names in bylines across a variety of publications? Chances are you love to write but your self-limiting talk is preventing you from moving forward in your writing career.

Learn to Interview teaches you how to prepare outstanding content above and beyond first-person narratives. I’ll teach you how to add notable quotes to your storyline through meaningful interviews. After more than 15 years as a journalist and 10 years in PR, I know what editors want to see. Not only do they want to read carefully crafted articles free of typos, but they also yearn for exclusive content and style. They want to see a writer’s personal style shine through because, at the end of the day, that’s what sets you apart from other writers.

Learn to Interview is packed with strategies I’ve learned throughout my career as a freelance correspondent for print and digital newspapers and magazines.

Are you someone who struggles with creating meaningful questions?

I created this course with you in mind to boost your confidence, ease your anxiety about interviewing, spark your creativity, and improve your conversations.

Who is Joan Mead-Matsui?

I’m a five-time award-winning journalist with more than 1,500 published articles to my credit and hundreds of travel articles. Before launching my website, https://joanmatsuitravelwriter.com, I covered assignments on a variety of topics from business to personality profiles for print and digital newspapers and magazines. I’m also a photojournalist, accomplished travel writer, and podcast host who thrives on interviewing people from all walks of life.

Read one of many reviews from my clients.

“When I was acting as Vice-Chair for the Clarks Summit Centennial Planning Committee in 2010-2011, I was interviewed many times by Joan Mead-Matsui. I was not used to being interviewed and I was very impressed by her professionalism and her ability to ask questions to make clear what I was trying to say. She allowed me to wander around a topic and then would bring me back to the essence of the matter under discussion with her questions. In addition to her ability to extract the essence of what I was saying, she also taught me how to express myself more clearly in what I had to say. It was due to people like her that our Centennial was so well reported.”  Dennis Martin, Clarks Summit Centennial Planning Committee vice-chair

Buy “A WRITER’S NO-NONSENSE GUIDE TO INTERVIEWING: Tips for A
Meaningful, Productive Conversation” for $39 USD today and you’ll walk away with the lessons I learned
that led me to win five newspaper association awards.

Invest in your future. You won’t be sorry and your interviewees will thank you for a phenomenal interview experience.

Joan Mead-Matsui

Looking for examples? Check out some of my interviews.

Or click here for a story about Wildwood Park.