Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Interview (journalism)" in English language version.
The interview in the question-and-answer format first appeared in the United States as late as the 1850s (Silvester 1996: 4).Compare: Silvester, Christopher, ed. (1993). The Penguin Book of Interviews: An Anthology from 1859 to the Present Day. Viking. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-670-83965-0. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
Edwin L. Shuman in his Practical Journalism (1903) quotes an American editor, whom he discreetly calls 'Brown', as attributing the first interview to the New York Herald in 1859 [...].
