Wikinews:Interview highlights
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Here is an incomplete catalogue of interviews Wikinews has done since the site's inception.
Interviews are broken up by category, and links and interview dates are provided under pictures of the interview subjects (when applicable).
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[edit] Latest interviews
- 22 November 2008: US Nazi leader talks about Barack Obama, the economy and more
- 30 October 2008: Wikinews interviews UK pro darts player Kirk Shepherd
- 22 October 2008: Psychiatrist Dr. Jerald Block tells Wikinews about addiction to the Internet
- 22 October 2008: 2008-09 Wikipedia for Schools goes online
- 15 October 2008: Oscar Diös tells Wikinews about his hostel within a Boeing 747
- 14 October 2008: US Army sergeant asserts Posse Comitatus is not being violated
- 13 October 2008: CanadaVOTES: Libertarian John Kittridge in St. Paul's
[edit] Notable interviews
[edit] Entertainment
 Bang Camaro, guitarists Alex Necochea and Bryn Bennett (Oct 2007) |
 Caribou, an electronica pioneer (Nov 2007) |
 Tricia Cast (Mar 2008) |
 Celtic Spring (Aug 2006) |
 Whitney Cunningham (Dec 2007) |
 Antje Duvekot, folk singer (Nov 2007) |
 CariDee English (Feb 2008) |
 Jaslene Gonzalez (Feb 2008) |
 Natasha Khan (Sept 2007) |
 Andrea Muizelaar (Nov 2007) |
 The Raveonettes (Oct 2007) |
 RuPaul (Oct 2007) |
 Eric Saussine, director of the acclaimed James Bond fan film Shamelady (July 2008) |
 Melody Thomas Scott (Mar 2008) |
 Victoria Sinclair, anchor of Naked News (Nov 2007) |
 Parker Somerville (Mar 2008) |
 Michelle Stafford (Mar 2008) |
 John Vanderslice (Sept 2007) |
 Victoria Wyndham (Dec 2007) |
[edit] Law and human rights
 Lawrence Douglas (Nov 2006) |
 Nadine Strossen (Oct 2007) |
 Al Sharpton (Dec 2007) |
 Evan Wolfson (Sept 2007) |
[edit] Literature and journalism
 Augusten Burroughs (Oct 2007) |
 Hugh McGuire, founder of LibriVox, an audiobook project (May 2006) |
 Frank Messina (Oct 2007) |
 Michael Musto, gossip columnist, The Village Voice (Oct 2007) |
 John Reed (Oct 2007) |
 Chet Clem and Sean Mills of The Onion (Nov 2007) |
 Gay Talese (Oct 2007) |
 Craig Unger, Vanity Fair contributing editor (Nov 2007) |
 Edmund White, novelist of A Boy's Own Story (Nov 2007) |
[edit] Politics
 Kevin Baugh, President of the Republic of Molossia, one of the world's most well known micronations (March 2008) |
 Kevin Baugh on Molossia's recent summits with intermicronational leaders (July 2008) |
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Christopher Beyette, prince of the Principality of Vikesland, a micronation located in Manitoba (July 2008) |
 Sam Brownback, then-US Presidential candidate (Oct 2007) |
 Noel Cox, chairman of the Monarchist League of New Zealand (June 2007) |
 Bernard Darnton, leader of Libertarianz (Oct 2007) |
 Rickard Falkvinge, Swedish Pirate Party leader (June 2006) |
Lewis Holden, chair of the Republican Movement and a noted blogger (May 2007) |
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John Key, New Zealand's Leader of the Opposition (May 2007) |
 Cynthia McKinney, former Democrat Congresswoman turned U.S. Green Party presidential candidate (March 2008) |
 Craig Milmine, party president of Libertarianz (Oct 2007) |
 Shimon Peres, President of Israel, Nobel Peace Prize winner (January 2008) |
 Nick Smith, NZ's "worst behaved" politican responds (Jan 2007) |
 Tom Tancredo, US Presidential candidate (Sep 2007) |
 Tashi Wangdi, Representative of the Dalai Lama to the Americas (Nov 2007) |
[edit] Science and mathematics
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David Anderson, a founder of the SETI@home project, and the Virtual Microscope (Jan 2006) |
 Aner Shalev, Israeli mathematician and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Einstein Institute of Mathematics (Sep 2007) |
 Marcus du Sautoy, English mathematician and professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford (Sep 2007) |
 Andrew Westphal, director of Stardust@home (May 2006) |
[edit] Technology
 Enoch Du, Secretary General of Taipei Computer Association (Oct 2007) |
John Ballinger, NZ iPhone cracker (Sep 2007) |
 Robert Cailliau, World Wide Web co-inventor (Aug 2007) |
 Florence Devouard, chair of the Wikimedia Foundation (Dec 2006) |
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Gary Fung, of the isoHunt torrent, targeted by the MPAA (Mar 2006) |
_FULL.jpg) Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation (Oct 2007) |
 Mike Halterman, Conference of the Americas organizer (Oct 2007) |
 Matt Hanson (June 2006) |
 Danny O'Brien (Jan 2006) |
 Peter "Shamino" Tan (Dec 2007) |
 You-peng Wang, Taipei Electrical Commercial Association (Nov 2007) |
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 David White, open source video game creator (June 2006) |
[edit] Etc.
 Joshua Brady, ex-Sprint customer, allegedly harassed and threatened by customer service rep (July 2007) |
 Paul Gerhardt, BBC Creative Archive project leader (June 2006) |
 HC & Co., a BDSM business in New York City (Oct 2007) |
 Joseph Merlino (Oct 2007) |
 Kira Nerusskaya, documentary filmmaker (Oct 2007) |
 Sit Here founders, trying to revive stoop culture (Feb 2007) |
Frank Warren, founder of PostSecret (Jan 2006) |
 Peter Gilmore, High Priest of the Church of Satan (Nov 2007) |
[edit] To be sorted
Taliban resurgent in Pakistan on enforcement of Sharia law Aside from Semicon Taiwan 2007 - An attraction of "exiderdome" by Siemens Exclusive report on New Zealand's digital TV service New Zealand's anti-spam legislation kicks in – exclusive report Wikinews interviews Ethan Zuckerman Four families left homeless after apartment fire in Buffalo, New York Contract to buy properties on site of Buffalo, N.Y. hotel proposal extended Exclusive interview with prominent blogger, David Farrar Columbine High School evacuated following bomb scare OpenSync Interview - syncing on the free desktop Outage leaves tens of thousands of New Zealanders without Internet Interview with Brazilian blogger Ricardo Serran Lobo Australia Votes 2007: Opposition transport minister speaks to Wikinews on Central NSW freeway
