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News Programme and Presentation

A news programme consists of a number of individual sections. Some of the most important elements are listed below:

Presentation

This includes greeting the viewers and saying good bye, introducing the various items and bringing them to a conclusion. The news reader provides the lead-ins to already prepared news reports or bulletins and the texts which lead from one item to the next. Whilst he or she is reading the text, the content is backed visually by graphics or some other appropriate pictorial form.

Spoken Reporting

The news reader or announcer reads a report live during transmission. Only the reader/announcer can be seen, with graphics or a photograph as backing. The bulletin or report is not accompanied by film material.

Film Reports / Filmed News Item

This type of news reporting consists of both visual and spoken information elements. The text is spoken either live by a reporter at an external location or by the news reader or announcer in the studio as a voice-over, or, alternatively the spoken text has been pre-recorded which means that the entire report has been recorded and edited before transmission.

News Reporting by Correspondents

These are reports that have been prepared for broadcasting beforehand, in which a correspondent is filmed on location, describing the event. The correspondent is often shown in at least one take speaking directly into the camera. When the news programme transmits live from the location the news reader in the studio is also visible on the screen, asking the correspondent questions about the event.

Commentary

Here an opinion on one particular report or item of news in the programme is written and read by another news reader (editor). This kind of commentary is presented clearly as an opinion as it is introduced and concluded by the programme presenter.

Interview

The news reader in the studio talks to a person over the telephone, in most cases with a picture insert of the interviewee.

Cf. Uwe Mattusch/Markus Mörchen: Workshop Medien. Nachrichten unter der Lupe. Paderborn 1997..
Translation: Michèle Lester.

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