[Nfb-editors] question on how to handle quoted material in aninterview

[Chris Kuell]

Dana,

Chris Kuell from Connecticut here. In cases like yours, where I've 
interviewed someone who gave a 100 word answer when 20 would do just fine, 
I've edited their words, put them in quotes, then shown them my article to 
get their approval before publishing/submitting. As long as they are okay 
with the quote, there's no problem.

chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dana Ard" <danalynard at q.com>
To: <nfb-editors at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 6:29 PM
Subject: [Nfb-editors] question on how to handle quoted material in 
aninterview


>I am Dana Ard from Idaho. I am our newsletter editor, and probably know 
>some
> of you on this list. My question is this. I recently interviewed an
> individual for an artical on retirement. I have several long comments that
> this person made, but I don't have exact word for word quotes. I am close,
> since I took down her comments on my pac mate, but I wouldn't say the 
> words
> are exact. Is there any way to handle this without saying "she said 
> that...
> or some other verbage indicating that this is paraphrased. I'd like to be
> able to treat some of the comments like quotes, but if they are not exact
> quotes I probably can't do this. Any suggestions? Thank you.
>
>
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