Thanks for being a part of this course on how to interview people. I hope you've learned a few insights and more important actually developed skills by practicing the lessons and the exercises here. I can give you all sorts of tips and advice, but it really does come down to you've got to practice on video, review it, critique it until you're happy with it that is far away. The number one tip that's really going to turn you into an excellent interviewer. I hope that you have a long, long career in whatever you do. interviewing people.

And again, all an interview is is really talking to someone having an interesting conversation, asking questions, and either showing the whole thing or editing it down to the best parts and making it available to other people. That's really all it is. So no, you don't have to go to two years of graduate school and get a Masters to create in journalism in order to be good at interviewing, many, if not most of the best interviewers in the history of journalism, were college dropouts or even high school dropouts. So it's not about education. It is about learning, learning about the ideas surrounding the newsmaker or the expert you want to interview, preparing, planning, thinking of questions, and then being confident enough to truly be in the moment to have a real conversation, to listen to the person to follow up. And then to make the interview available to your viewers, readers, listeners.

I want to wish you luck with all of your interviews in the future. And please post links to your interviews right here. I'd love to see you. I'm TJ Walker. Thanks for being a part of this course.