Elle magazine features an article this month called “TV’s Wonder Women,” and representing the news industry are two high-profile anchors — Fox News’ Megyn Kelly and ABC’s Katie Couric. The accompanying profiles focus on their interviewing skills — Kelly divulges what it takes to be banned as a guest on “America Live”…
There have been a couple of people I’ve said I never want back on the program. They shall go nameless. There was one guest who, just as we turned off his microphone, dropped the F-bomb. He was, you know, frothing at the mouth. Angry! We were going to break, so I said goodbye. Then he started going into a long tirade of swears. Thankfully, we’d already turned off his microphone. He was somebody I put a ban on. My point is: It takes a lot.
… and Couric reveals why listening is a key skill to interviewing a sitting President:
You can hypothesize about how someone’s going to answer a question, but sometimes you’re not right, and you have to have the ability to think on your feet or respond to an answer that’s completely unexpected. You’ve got to have laser-like focus. It’s quite nerve-wracking. I still get the butterflies before I do it.