Things You'll Need:
- Your GMA interview schedule
- Digital recorded interviews
- Tape recorder and recorded interview tapes
- Computer
- An email account
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Step 1
Review the recorded interviews to make sure that you have a good recording and that you can understand them. While you’re listening, make notes about what you remember from the interviews, such as the interviewees’ body language, facial expressions, anything that will flesh out your articles.
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Step 2
Email the publicists and thank them for arranging the interviews. Mention their artists by name and tell them that you will let them know when your profiles are published. Publicists work very hard to represent their artists and showing a little courtesy is all a part of industry networking.
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Step 3
Contact your editors and fill them in on how the interviews went. Discuss focus and deadlines for profiles. Find out if they need publicity photos and, if they do, get back with the publicist with the information on where to send them.
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Step 4
Transcribe the interviews and write the profiles. Once they are published, make a copy and save them to a GMA file. Arrange with your editor to have a copy sent to the publicist.
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Step 5
Keep the file of written profiles. When you apply for media credentials for the next year’s Gospel Music Week, the application will ask for copies of articles from the previous year’s GMA.
