News reporting involves discovering relevant facts, selecting important facts to weave a comprehensive story, and presenting the facts in a clear manner. It requires hard work, stamina, and patience to pursue investigations thoroughly. There are many types of news reporting such as investigative, court, political, and sports reporting. Radio and television broadcasting are key methods of transmitting news reports to wide audiences. Effective news scripts are written clearly using short, simple sentences in an active voice and avoiding jargon. Proper script formatting and guidelines help ensure reporting is understandable and engaging for audiences.
2. News reporting involves discovering all relevant
facts, selecting and presenting the important facts and
weaving a comprehensive story. Reporting involves hard
work, which in turn involves stamina and patience. The
main function of journalistic profession is news reporting.
A reporter needs not only energy to spend long
hours chasing a story, collecting facts from various sources
in an effort to dig up the truth, he needs must have the will
to pursue the course of his investigation to the very end in
order to produce a really comprehensive story without any
missing links or unanswered questions.
News Reporting
4. TYPE OF NEWS REPORTING
There are different types of news reporting which are
as under:
Investigative Reporting
Court Reporting
Accidence Reporting
Political Reporting
Fashion Reporting
Business Reporting
Sports Reporting
Specialized Reporting
6. 1st: RADIO Broadcasting
Radio broadcasting is transmission by
radio waves intended to reach a wide audience.
Stations can be linked in radio networks to
broadcast a common radio format, either in
broadcast syndication or simulcast or both.
Alternatives to terrestrial radio broadcasting
include cable radio, local wire television
networks, satellite radio, and internet radio via
streaming media on the Internet. The signal
types can be either analog audio or digital
audio.
8. TYPES OF RADIO
BROADCASTING
AM
AM stations were the earliest broadcasting
stations to be developed. AM refers to amplitude
modulation, a mode of broadcasting radio waves by
varying the amplitude of the carrier signal in response
to the amplitude of the signal to be transmitted. The
medium-wave band is used worldwide for AM
broadcasting. Europe also uses the long wave band.
In response to the growing popularity of FM stereo
radio stations in the late 1980s and early 1990s, some
North American stations began broadcasting in AM
stereo, though this never gained popularity, and very
few receivers were ever sold.
9. TYPES OF RADIO
BROADCASTING
FM
FM refers to frequency modulation, and
occurs on VHF airwaves in the frequency
range of 88 to 108 MHz everywhere except
Japan and Russia. Russia, like the former
Soviet Union, uses 65.9 to 74 MHz
frequencies in addition to the world
standard. Japan uses the 76 to 90 MHz
frequency band.
10. CREW OF A RADIO BROAD
PRODUCTION
on stage and production
ANCHOR
REPORTERS
DIRECTOR
TIMER(ASSISTANT DIRECTOR)
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
SCRIPT WRITER
INFOMERCIALIST
PRODUCTION
11. 2nd: TELEVISION Broadcasting
Terrestrial or broadcast television is a type of
television broadcasting in which the television signal is
transmitted by radio waves from the terrestrial (Earth
based) transmitter of a television station to a TV receiver
having an antenna. The term "terrestrial" is used to
distinguish this type from the newer technologies of
satellite television, in which the television signal is
transmitted to the receiver from an overhead satellite, and
cable television, in which the signal is carried to the
receiver through a cable. It has the duty same as to radio
broadcasting to transmit information to the listeners
through these media.
13. CREW OF A TV BROAD PRODUCTION
ANCHOR
NEWS FIELD REPORTERS
DIRECTOR
VTR OPERATOR
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
SCRIPT WRITER
CAMERA MAN
INFOMERCIALIST TEAM
TRANSMISSION CONTROL MEN
ETC
16. Type copy in big letter so the newscaster
can easily read it.
All spoken lines should be typed in big
and small letters.
All instructions and non-spoken lines
should be typed in big or capital letters.
Have a duplicate of each copy.
Make each sentence a paragraph.
Write a page number on each script.
End each page with a paragraph before
using another paper.
SCRIPT WRITING: Radio and TV
Broadcasting
17. SCRIPT WRITING: Radio and TV
Broadcasting
Make your script clean.
Mark x for erroneous word.
Make the script short and simple.
Do not use words which are hard to
pronounce.
Dont text-write.
Each sentence should not exceed 12
words. Break down long sentences for
easy readability.
Attribute the source of your story either at the
beginning or at the end of your news.
18. SCRIPT WRITING: Radio and TV
Broadcasting
Round-off figures/numbers
Change 2.6123 million to more than 2 and a
half million
35.7002 percent to nearly 36 percent
SAMPLE
Umabot sa may 10.349 milyong piso
Umabot sa mahigit sampung milyong piso
Write out symbols and fractions
Avoid abbreviations Other reminders
19. SCRIPT WRITING: Radio and TV
Broadcasting
Keep subject and verb close together and use
active rather than the passive voice for verb,
Sample
Wrong: Ang naganap na sunud-sunod na nakawan sa
mga paaralan ay pinasisiyasat ni Tarlac City Mayor Aro
Mendoza.
Correct: Pinasisiyasat ni Tarlac City Mayor Aro
Mendoza ang naganap sunud sunod na nakawan sa
mga paaralan Sentence Structure
20. SCRIPT WRITING: Radio and TV
Broadcasting
Provide phonetic spelling
Speech has rhythm and should be kept in
mind when writing a radio script
A radio script should display an element
of nowness
Key repetitive statements help the listener
to get the message
22. GUIDELINES WHEN WRITING A BROADCAST
SCRIPT: Radio and TV Broadcasting
Read your story out loud. Even if you read it softly, read as if you
were saying the story on air. See if it would make sense to someone
hearing it for the first time.
Avoid jargon. Police use such phrases as "fled on foot" or
"lacerations," but you don't have to include jargon in your script. A
story should sound as though you were speaking to someone in
conversation. You honor journalism's standards of clarity when you
translate jargon into simple, everyday language.
Use active voice. Think "who did what?" to create active, strong
sentences. Scripts written in passive voice can be less interesting to
your audience, they are awkward to read, and they tend to be
longer.
Write to your video. Video enriches the story your viewers see.
Use it to put your audience at the scene and then use the script to
explain what they are not seeing.
Hook your audience. When you're writing a tease or a lead, ask:
Will this make people want to stay around for this story? Does it give
too much of the story away?