interview styles

In different interviews the interviewers use different styles to get different answers out of the interviewee. they do this depending on what is the topic and who is the interviewee and why they are there. the types of different interview styles are

Hard news

Hard news is news which effects peoples everyday lives it also is serious. Examples of this is politics, laws and war. These will be the hard hitting stories. Hard news stories are usually on the main stories on the news at 6.
Example
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06gxyjw/bbc-news-at-ten-15102015
An example is the news at ten on the BBC these below are the stories which came up on this episode
NHS- the story about NHS is classified as a hard news story because the anything affecting the NHS affects us whether it be problems with care, more Doctors and Nurses signing up to active duty, or the NHS becoming a private sector
Crash- The plane crash is hard news because it directly affects the people related to those 270 people who have passed during the crash
The troop numbers will remain at 10,000 soldiers in Afghanistan reversing what the President had aimed- This affects international politics

Human interest

Human interest stories which also can be called soft news are when it doesn't affect peoples everyday lives but they are interested it. An example of this is royal baby.

This is an example of human interest as the royal baby isn't going to affect people everyday lives. But they are interested so it is Human Interest also known as soft news. 

Entertainment

Entertainment also might overlap with promotional; this is when the news or interview is with a celebrity. This is news and interviews which are there to entertain. These interviews would usually take place on shows such as Alan Carr and Graham Norton. They would be more casual and like you were speaking to a friend. 

An example of this is 'Angelina Jolie Interview on the today show.' Here she speaks about her family and marriage to Brad Pitt; she also speaks about her work in developing countries and the differences between her life and the families in the developing countries. 

Investigative 

Investigative news would be an interview which would be getting information and details into a story. This sort of interview would be about conspiracies or on big events and would be shown on documentaries which would be about the subject or event. 

Promotional
Entertainment interview would be or the entertainment for the audience. For example would be an interview with a celebrity. These interviews are similar to the promotional interview and sometimes overlap.
Example

An example of this is the interview of Chris Evans. This is because that he is speaking about his film and what was the filming experience like. Also they were speaking about what was the character like. All of these questions make the film become more popular and help make people want to see the film.

Combative

A combative style of interview is where the interviewer asks a question in an aggressive way. It also may be competitively asked or re worded and asked again. This is usually used on politicians and company managers. This is used because they have media training so they wouldn't answer the questions as they are trained to dodge the questions they don't want to answer.