Section 2

News programmes may be hosted, fronted, or anchored by anchors famous in their own right, sometimes more famous than the people in the news.

In more traditional news programmes, the news is read by a newsreader or newscaster: newscaster is now a rather old-fashioned word.

Reporters and correspondents, or television journalists, make reports. They and the camera operators who go with them arc news gatherers. Together they form TV crews.

Broadcasters are TV and radio organisations, the people working for them, or, more specifically, the professional media people who actually participate in programmes.

Ex.2. Look at the sentences below and complete the gaps with the words from “Programme and People. Section 2”.

a) To me, n__________ are just people who read the news. I've never believed in the TV personality cult.

b) On the BBC World Service the news men present the news as it is, and not the n__________s' view of it.

c) Sissons, solid performer, would make an excellent 'Newsnight' a___________. Though he has f___________ live television studio debates for Channel 4 in the past, he seems lost at the BBC.

d) We have just had this report from our c_____________ in Belgrade, Jim Fish.

e) Television r____________ would put on their gas masks on screen to point live at missile streaks in the sky.

f) The BBC has produced two hard-hitting videos in a bid to cut down the growing number of n_______ g__________ killed or injured while on duty.

g) His temper finally cracked when he turned on a TV c____________ and shouted, 'Leave me alone.'

h) Buerk said, 'Reporters, correspondents and newscasters are not part of the mainstream which flows towards management. So none of our senior managers have been b_____________, which is like having nobody at the top of the Royal Air Force who can fly.'

Ex.3. Find nine key words from “Programme and People” hidden in the square, in addition to the example. The words go from left to right, from top to bottom or diagonally downwards.

Lesson 2

Part 3. News Writing and Reporting Practice

The Basic News Story