I guess In Personal Interview we come to know about the person very well and also it helps to maintain the relation which is good for Journalist. As I think as a person when we talk to these celebrity's we come to know about there expression and there Body Language which shows that how the person is true during interview, Journalist get Time to Judge the person from his or her talk and Body language which is really helpful for Journalist!

Of course, in person is the best. But constraints of time may have you opt for the phone, or else, the e-mail. But in case you cannot manage to interview in person, e-mail is preferable for accuracy.

The Most Effective Interview medium in my view is in person as when you interview a person, particularly a politician, you have to check his body language, the emotions on his face and so on and only then you can judge that the person you are interviewing is true in his interview or not. This is not possible on phone or by email.

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Lintle Ramatla in Rustenburg.

I vote for in person people are not always true about their information its better to interview someone you can see and feel.

In person and Email Ms. Joke K, Nigeria.

I believe that traditional in-person Email is still the best because apart from getting your responses instantly, it would come richly cause the person is able to put a face to his/her interviewee and that builds a level of confidence. Also, you would also be able to understudy the emotional currents of your respondent to determine if he or she is lying or telling you the truth about the issue being discussed.

I will also say the Email is better because each of you, interviewer and interviewee will be able to exchange ideas better on the questions and answers and can always get back to each other if the answers given are not quite satisfactory.

It's always better to talk in person with the interviewee. You can repeat the question if necessary or clarify if something is left unclear. And of course, you can see the gestures and motions while asking certain questions. No e-mail or phone can give you that "khm...well you know..we've been (scratch, scratch..)" look. Priceless!

I challenge anyone to do a feature story over Twitter -- unless the story is how silly it is to use Twitter for a feature interview. Instant messages can be better than email because you can ask follow-ups in real time, but you have to get it set up and also there's always the question of cleaning up the grammar/spelling errors people tend to make when writing that way.

You can ask the questions at your leisure and they can get back to you when not busy. You miss some of the back and forth but if your sources are smart they respect deadlines...and if you just need a quick comment -- not a full-blown interview -- it saves a lot of time & energy.

In person is best, but who has time for that? 9/10, it's a phone interview. I prefer using a cell phone or skype so I can record the interview, but in reality I almost never had time to listen to it again...

In that order -- but just as journalists used to work the phone a lot because they were on deadline, now I spend a lot of time emailing even though it's not super effective...