Wikinews:Coming soon

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This is a list of what's coming soon to Wikinews. This encompasses, for the most part, what we're working on in the next seven days.

This is also a home remedy to the LARGE topic headers we're having in #wikinews IRC. This will be linked from the topic for less mess! Edit in your own announcements and upcoming interviews (again, only things that will transpire within the next week). These are pressing, need to know subjects, differentiating from story preparation in that these stories and leads are actively in development this week.

[edit] Announcements

• I have agreed an IRC interview with the chair of Wikimedia UK (Alison Wheeler). Please submit questions here or come to the IRC when the interview is taking place to ask a question direct to Mrs. Wheeler (date for interview to be confirmaed but hopefully some time next week)
• Jeff Jacobsen interview published
• Upcoming NHL Stanley Cup. We have an NHL contact who may be able to help with press access and photos.

[edit] Interview preparations

Please put stories in alphabetical order. Thank you!

• Tory Christman
• World Council of Churches member on Climate change
• Amanda Congdon
• Åse Kleveland
• Maddy Prior
• Cristina Saralegui (currently in planning and negotiation)
• Jeff Schoep
• Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
• Cindy Sheehan (soliciting interview questions)
• Wikinews:Story preparation/Football Federation Australia - A-League Interview
• Jimmy Wales

[edit] Requests for interviews

If you are trying to score an interview, please make a sub-heading and add who you are trying to get, details on the interview you'd like to do, and when you want to publish (ideally). Sign with four tildes. ~~~~

[edit] Electronic Frontier Foundation

I've emailed the press address for the EFF asking for an interview. I asked if it could be done on IRC so we could have a collaborative effort on the interview. No response yet, but I'll post more details whenever I can. Thunderhead - (talk - email - contributions) 09:18, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

I have various contacts with the EFF after Stevenfruitsmaak and I interviewed them about the EU Copyright extension proposals. Give some more details and I can get you past the press contact address. --09:55, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ralph Nader

I expressed interest in IRC about interviewing Nader, and ShakaGaNai or whatever his name is (sorry Shaka :P) said that as Nader really needs & wants press coverage he would probably agree. [Insert girly squeal]

However, I'm a huge amateur and simply have no idea how to go about this. I'd prefer to go about it via email. I could use one or more person (asking DragonFire in particular but having a hard time catching him) who is experienced or at least has a better idea of what to do, to work with me on this and to help me out. I've written out a lot of questions, I don't intend to use them all, it's just brainstorming. No experience asking questions before ;) Even some input on the questions would be nice. You can find the questions here. --Poisonous (talk) 03:38, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Uh, for the record... I had nothing to do with this. --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 05:18, 17 October 2008 (UTC)