German term (edited): Ueberfallinterview

In some circles, it is common for media trainers to use ambush interviews at the start of their training. One or more participants are singled out and asked (but more often forced or coerced) into participating in an interview at the start of the training — without any preparation or guidance. Theoretically, this demonstrates the value of being prepared, although it seems to underscore a message that there may be a reporter lurking around any corner or under any rock.
Realistically, ambush interviews are extremely rare in a non-training environment. Most organizations, when they have serious issues brewing, are aware that such issues could erupt at any time. How many of us have attended meetings in which someone in the management group says, “I really hope reporters don’t get a hold of this”? If such a comment is ever made at a meeting, the organization should never be ambushed. It needs no other warning because it has, quite frankly, warned itself.
http://commons.iabc.com/media/2006/06/21/the-fallacy-of-the-...
ABC’s Slimy Ambush Interview Of Levi Johnston
Now that Levi Johnston has presumably seen the slimy interview that ABC’s Neil Karlinsky sprang on him, aired on GMA this morning, I wonder if he wishes he had just kept driving . . . or maybe hopped out of the cab and given Neil a little poke in the nose.
This clearly seemed to be an interview of the ambush sort, not something Levi had agreed to in advance. ABC apparently sent a crew up to Wasila to track Johnston down. As Karlinksy said in introducing the interview, “we found Levi Johnston,” and there he was in his pickup, looking about as comfortable as some corporate exec confronted by Mike Wallace.
http://finkelblog.com/index.php/2009/03/16/abcs-gotcha-inter...
Trancript of ambush interview Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile
http://www.senate.gov.ph/press_release/2009/0811_enrile1.asp
An O’Reilly Ambush Interview for Dan Rather?
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/an-oreilly-ambush-interview-fo...