Crisis Communications Discussion Question: What should your first words be in a media interview?

It can be challenging and nerve-racking to start off a media interview. Should you introduce yourself if the interviewer doesn’t? Should you greet your audiences or the interviewer? Should you review how this process will go with your interviewer? Should you thank your listeners for tuning in, for reading, or for watching? Do your first words change depending on if your organization is facing a crisis?

To help out our public relations community and in order to share valuable tips among one another, this week’s crisis communications discussion question is,  “What should your first words be in a media interview?”

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