Sometimes you can negotiate that you get to see the final story first, to check for "factual inaccuracies". Particularly if you're talking to a non-aviation-knowledgeable journalist. So you may not be able to change the tone of the story but you can point out the things they got factually wrong after the interview, and get them corrected.
Press normally don't like giving insight in their story before it hits the presses, but if they need to choose between that and no story at all, you might get lucky.