ABSTRACT
The TV newsroom used to be only about news bulletins at fixed times: morning, middle of the day, evening. Big network and global newsrooms still have these fixed bulletins but there is always a lot of live, because that is what TV newsrooms want to do best. Like radio, there are two basic functions for television news journalists: those who go and get it, and those who put it together for transmission on any platform: TV, website, phone or anything else coming along next year. The journalist used to take his pile of rushes to a picture editor and together they put it together in a way that applies the grammar of television storytelling. Live news can certainly impose a tyranny on the journalist only because everyone in the journalism business is hungry for changing developments. Modern technology has put relatively high-resolution cameras into the hands of millions of people and given newsrooms powerful images.
