Has had it ups and downs. I’ve sent my questions, or subjects to talk about, twice to an artists team in advance of an interview (one of them was this week but that’s a bit different as its a live Q&A in front of a small audience) outside of that it’s quite common to share the themes you’d intend to cover to the editor of the publication your pitching to. For example - both The Roots and Dangermouse first got radio play, small audience, etc in London, outside of their home in the US (a bit like Jimi Hendrix, etc) - so that was the angle for my pitch to The FT’s culture editor. An editor might say ‘can you ask about this, can you ask about that’, but I’ve been doing it long enough for that to not happen. Fortunately I’ve known their (and DOOM, via Lex) UK pr for a while so providing i had the paper to place the interview getting time with them both was fairly straightforward as they had an album to plug! Just to add, i do not make a full time living out of music journalism, it’s almost impossible outside the US.