Jeff O'Connell, Veteran Editor of Men's Mags, Shares His Celebrity Interview Techniques

Jeff-O'Connell-ArticleJeff O’Connell, editor-in-chief of Bodybuilding.com, has had an illustrious career in fitness journalism. Starting off as a staff writer at Muscle & Fitness, O’Connell eventually worked his way up to EIC. He also served as executive writer at Men’s Health, has co-written a New York Times best-selling workout book with LL Cool J, and penned his own title, Sugar Nation, in 2011.

In our latest So What Do You Do column, O’Connell talks about the inauspicious start to his career, how he finds his most fascinating human-interest stories and his advice on interviewing celebrities:

So much of it is making the other person comfortable, especially if you do a celebrity interview.

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