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I built a game to help learn how to choose good interviewees

Who should you call?
A game about making the best interview choices
Every story raises questions. PEER is a checklist of the four kinds of source who can answer them. Work through seven levels, from naming a source’s role to building a full interview list for a story lead.

Power
What is being done? What should or will be done?
Political, legal, financial, cultural and mobilisation power. Not only politicians.
Expertise
Why is this happening? How does it work?
Academics, researchers, senior professionals, award-winners, people with long experience of a process.

Earlier this year I published the PEER technique for brainstorming interviewees: “four categories to help journalists generate more names on any given story — and think more creatively about whose voices might add something to that story.”

Now I’ve built a game to put that technique into practice — and improve your sourcing.

It’s much more fun.

Who should you call? has seven levels that move from identifying the type of source, to identifying who is missing from a story, to finding under-represented voices and picking a full interview list.

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