News Interview Journalists and Public Figures on the Air

Steven Clayman is Associate Professor of Sociology and is affiliated with the Communication Studies Program at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research lies at the intersection of talk, interaction, and mass communication. Much of his work concerns various forms of broadcast journalism, with an emphasis on news interviews and presidential press conferences. His articles have appeared in American Sociological Review; American Journal of Sociology; Journal of Communication; Media, Culture, and Society; and Research on Language and Social Interaction John Heritage is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He works in the field of communication and interaction with particular reference to health care and political communication. In the latter field, he has researched extensively on news interviews, political rhetoric and its relationship to audience reactions, and presidential press conferencesClayman, Steven is the author of 'News Interview Journalists and Public Figures on the Air' with ISBN 9780521812597 and ISBN 0521812593.