Overview of dealing with the media

Media Training

[…] If you’ve never had to talk on behalf of others, chances are you’ve never ‘done’ media training. It’s pretty standard practice at big companies: Oh shit, Mike has quite a few twitter followers and is doing interviews, let’s get him trained up so he doesn’t say something stupid.

So, I’ve been media trained (taught best practice for talking to journalists), I’m no expert, but I have a couple of bullet points in my head during most interviews, and following some recent interviews that seemed to lead a dev down an odd path, I thought I’d share them […]

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