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Html), Post shops, local council offices, libraries and court offices. Through land title information held by state government offices, you can find out about the history of the land where the subject’s ancestors lived and worked. See ‘Land Titles’ for more information. 22 ReleaseHounds Text 29/3/05 8:17 AM Page 23 MARKING THE TERRITORY Organisations such as the National Trust in each state hold historical and place-related information. For example, see the New South Wales National Trust’s site (www.
Read everything available on your research topic. Your local library is a convenient source of books to take home and use for reference. 40 ReleaseHounds Text 29/3/05 8:17 AM Page 41 PICKING UP THE SCENT • Get all the newspaper clippings. I subscribe to both the Fairfax and News Ltd archive libraries on the internet, and know my way around most major libraries. Often, librarians will have a particular topic of interest so they can also be helpful. • Read at least one major metropolitan newspaper each day so you are up to date with what is happening.
Then there’s the person who has been thrust into the news at a time of personal tragedy and knows little about how to handle the media attention. Such a situation calls for the utmost tact, sensitivity and compassion. The interpretive or backgrounding interview This is where the basic news story is already known, and you are seeking to explain the background or put the story into context. You go to the experts not for the simple facts, but for the interpretation, for answers to the ‘why’ or the ‘how’ of the story.