ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the architecture of radio news, and examines each of these different forms in turn. It explores the techniques involved in gathering material for a radio report, and how that report is assembled. Most stations offer a summary or bulletin of news at the top of every hour. Many also do a short summary on the half hour, and some do headlines on the quarter hour at peak times. Cutting clips can be a frustrating process. Sometimes you find just the clip you want, with the speaker making exactly the point you are looking for, but you cannot use it because it is too long. Or perhaps the inflections are wrong – such that when you isolate the clip, the audio ends with the speaker on an upward inflection that will sound as though you have cut them off in mid-thought.
