How to Write a Profile That Readers Remember
The interviews, the structure, and the small details that turn a famous name into a person on the page.
Profiles
Profiles carries the magazine's long-form portraits: actors, showrunners, directors, editors and department heads, reported over hours rather than a single phone call. Each piece asks how the work gets made and what it costs the person making it. For readers who want interviews that pass the junket answer.
Long-form portraits of actors, writers, directors and crew, reported with time on set and questions about the work instead of the private life.
Profiles in Ignorance: What Happens When Famous People Get History Wrong
The public factual blunder is its own television genre — and the interesting question is not why celebrities stumble, but why we keep the clips.
Profile Interview Questions — The Profile Interview: How Reporters Get People to Open Up
Good profile interviews are built, not stumbled into. Here is how question design, rapport, and close listening actually work.
Profiles Backstage — Backstage Profiles: The Unsung Crews Behind Big Productions
The audience sees the star. The production runs on the people the star never has to thank by name.
Profiles in Courage: The Book That Redefined Political Heroism
How a slim volume about eight senators became a Pulitzer winner, a ghostwriting controversy, and the template for political storytelling that still shapes how we talk about the work.
Monologue Performance — The Craft of the Monologue: How Actors Prepare and Perform Television's Most Demanding Moments
A two-minute speech with no scene partner is the hardest job on a call sheet. Here is how actors build one.