CHAPTER 5Beats, Spot News, and Reporting Assignments
CONTENTS
Key Words
Beats
Business/Consumer
Crime
Education
Entertainment
Environment
Health
Local Government
Military
Science/Technology
Sports
Spot News
Weather
INTRODUCTION
Reporters spend much of their careers covering spot news, which dominates the contents of all radio and TV newscasts. Spot news includes fires, accidents, holdups, and other incidents that occur every day, with varying frequency, in every city and town in the nation.
Chapter 2 discussed how stories are located for newscasts. Regardless of whether stories are planned, spontaneous, or enterprised, the newsroom must also decide who will cover ...
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