COM 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Sound Bite
14 Apr 2017
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Broadcast news is different than other types of journalism. There has to be some emotional appeal and realism to it, and more often it requires less effort to understand than other mediums. It sometimes feels like it treats news as entertainment, sensationalizing certain types of news. On radio, news starts when typically the news director is the one-person newsroom. They"re often writing stories and being the anchor who delivers the news on the air in smaller stations. At larger stations, there is a smaller team of reporters who delegate these responsibilities a reporter may cover one to five different stories without formal beats, and they will occasionally transmit news from the field for big breaking stories. Usually they will return to the studio and select soundbites they"ll use for each story. When drafting a script, they commonly will create several types of a story.
