Basic TV Reporting, 2nd Edition

Introduction

 

Of all the journalists and technicians involved in the production of television news and news-related programmes throughout the world, it is safe to say few if any arouse more interest, envy and controversy than the ‘Talent’ — those whose good fortune it is to appear before the public as on-screen presenters or reporters. Ask almost any aspiring young broadcast journalist for the ‘ideal’ career, and ten to one he or she will reel off an impressive list of names of those whose exploits they have followed keenly through their reporting from the world‘s trouble-spots, and whom they would dearly love to emulate given the opportunity. For no matter how strongly it is argued that power and responsibility reside largely with desk-bound ...