Your path to becoming Chief family Editor for your FNN (Family News Network).  

To fulfill this you’ll have many hats: 

• News Producer, News copy editor, Photojournalist, Broadcast journalist, Print journalist, and maybe even a freelance writer. Plus, you are a mentor for all your other family members. 

Let’s start with getting to understand people and relationships academically. 

Go to https://www.understandmyself.com. This site helps you to understand the Big 5 personality traits, and then you can test yourself and the relative you wish to interview.  See sample relationship report excerpt to get a taste of what is in one of these. It covers the Openness dimensions with scores that didn’t match well.

Once you’re done, you can get a relationship report analyzing and recommending how to deal with your similarities and differences. 

Let’s put that aside and look into how to interview for a good story. I found a recent podcast coming from the psychological front on the art of Interviewing. To read up on this, try https://spcollege.libguides.com/c.php?g=254319&p=1695317. This interview process would be best, taking a couple of passes. Initially, to fish out the life-changing stories. Then on the subsequent passes, take one that interests you and prepare by collecting all the questions you can about it. 

Now reflect on your personality matching and bring this to bear on your questions and also determine how you’ll set up the environment for your next meeting. Make sure your keenness and curiosity show. 

How to Avoid interview conversations that put others in a bad light. 

You want to be sure not to publish a story where other family members are not spoken highly of. It’s just not a good story. Direct the conversation to adventure, challenges, and growth parts.