Excellent Interviews

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/steve-jobs-in-1994-the-rolling-stone-interview-20110117

          This is an interview conducted by the Rolling Stone magazine in 1994 with Steve Jobs and was released January of 2011 a short while before his death in October of 2011.
          Something that stands out to me about this interview is how the questions seem to be premeditated but  at the same time the interviewer seemed to be able to come up with follow up questions if they did not get the answer they were searching for.  As well, a question I might ask the interviewer is, "Roughly how long do you spend researching the interviewee before you think you have sufficient data for an interview?" or I might ask them, "How many questions do you enter an interview with, how many get answered and how many are you going to use in your article?"  An idea I may take from this interview is to have more than enough questions to begin with, then simply use the ones you feel are most appropriate for your article or are best answered to your liking.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/obama-in-command-br-the-rolling-stone-interview-20100928

          This is an interview with President Barack Obama conducted by the Rolling Stone magazine published in September of 2010.
          A technique I feel I will take away from this interview is the formatting used in the article.  More specifically the use of the first sentence to tell the what the setting is like, then going on in the intro paragraph to tell more of the background of the interviewee and the history of the interviewers relationship with the interviewee.  Something that stood out to me is the use of a quote at the end of the intro paragraph, it seems the quote could be from the interview but is not shown.  The quote also seems to humanize the interviewee, which I think is a good thing for the reader especially with someone like the President of the United States who to some people may not seem human.  I believe this helps with the rest of the interview because it helps the reader keep in mind that this person is just like them, he thinks, breaths and acts like them.  He's just another person who won a popularity contest.