English for Journalists. Unit 4. Broadcasting

In print media, a news story is called an article. What do we call a news story in broadcast journalism?

• program

• segment

• live

Definition: a news show on television, on the internet, or on the radio

• program

• segment

• broadcast

• commentary

to use a video camera (or microphone to radio) and send that recording to television sets, radios, and computers all over the world

• program

• segment

• broadcast

• teleprompter

seeing or hearing what people on television, the internet, or on the radio are saying at the time that they are saying it

• on location

• live

• feel-good story

• program

a news story that is broadcasted on television, the internet, or on the radio

• segment

• commentary

• feel-good story

• program

a script, or the written text, of what the journalist is going to say

• anchor

• commentary

• consumer report

• copy

a machines that scrolls electronic text so that someone in front of the camera can read it

• anchor

• teleprompter

• consumer report

• copy

the lead journalist who reads the news on camera

• anchor

• teleprompter

• correspondent

• producer

Main types of news stories

• commentory

• consumer report

• feel-good stories

Conversational style is characterized by

• short and simple sentences

• lead-in sentences

• contractions