Some editors ban them. Many others discourage them. But email interviews have a solid place in reporting, Mark Lisheron writes for American Journalism Review: "Journalism professionals put email at the very bottom of their interviewing hierarchies, below the interview in person, below the phone interview," Lisheron writes. But, he continues, "email is a tool, in the box alongside the sit-down and the phoner, convenient, quick, precise and very often essential."
