ABSTRACT

Those who go into broadcast news have to enjoy the challenge of working to tight deadlines in an environment of what is at times controlled chaos. Step into a TV newsroom right before the newscast, especially in a small-to medium-market station where everyone seems to have the workload of 1.2 persons. Reporters are putting finishing touches on late-breaking copy, the producer is yelling at someone because several scripts are not in hand, a tape editor is cursing

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• To describe the essentials of video logic and composition for a TV news report • To present guidelines for reporters’ behavior in covering disasters, hard news, and

of the advertising sales reps is ushering a prospective client into the viewing booth behind the technical director to watch the news program.