Frank Zappa once said that "music criticism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read".
In all cases, the interviewer took detailed contemporaneous notes and wrote up a structured written interview report immediately after, which followed the same structure of the interview, but did not necessarily include verbatim responses.
This was a written interview for the Europa partnership of newspapers.
South Korea needs a leader who is a man of "virtue, patience and forgiveness", he said in a written interview recently.
Nonetheless, last week Mr. Young scored a journalistic coup, publishing a lengthy written interview with Russia's prime minister, Vladimir V. Putin.
In May 2012 The Economist conducted a written interview with him: Fracking is an old technique, as is horizontal drilling.
"We're terrible at written interviews," is one of the first things Pall has said this afternoon.
Included are archival photographs from the Schomburg Collection, portraits of contemporary leaders and written interviews with them by local students.
Mr. Baker pointed to a written interview with a Putnam Valley farmer, Lucas Barger, whose forebears helped settle the area.
"With a written interview I can work when I am able and rest when I need to," she wrote in her e-mail.
