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If I were the interviewer, I would nitpick that one of the first things you would do is go home. It's a good answer, but you want to just scope out the books. Don't take them home until later when your shift is over. (For this particular position I would be watching closely for the precision of your use of language and this would stick out to me.) Less

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Easy

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Re-design to make it look more contemporary, work with its mostly amateur editorial staff on improving their reporting and writing quality. ("Real," degreed journalists were NOT in huge supply in this very rural area of Indiana. Mostly what I had to work with was high school students and housewives.) A fairly typical CNHI scenario in the late Nineties, when it was a young corporation buying every small-town newspaper it could get its hands on. Less

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I would bracket the task back towards the skills they seek to develop in the position; by motivating themselves, it'll make the task seem less obligatory and more constructive. Less

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This question was actually kinda tough because I didn't want to get too personal with the interviewer. Less

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I gave all the answers genuinely.

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Dear Benzinga. Is there a way you can do a better pre-screening so people you don't intend to hire can avoid the drive to Campus Martius? Less

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fairly

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Obviously, my answer was "Yes," but you always have to follow up yes/no questions with some sort of explanation or bit of information about your experience. Less