2. Through to power of dramatic video and audio, broadcast journalism offers an emotional appeal, realism and immediacy that printed stories can't match.
3. Watching, listening to news stories also requires less intellectual effort than reading a complex news story in the paper or online.
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5. Both print and broadcast journalism have their strengths and weaknesses, and do stories a differently.
11. But those are exceptions. Because most broadcast news stories are brief. Extremely brief.
12. Instead of in inches, broadcast journalists measure stories in minutes and seconds. They boil issues down to their basics – and write as tightly as they can.
36. Package: A self-contained report that includes the recorded narration of the reporter and the recorded excerpts of interviews with the people featured in the news story.
37. Reader: News copy that the anchor reads on camera without illustrative video
38. SOT: Stands for sound on tape. Refers to the recorded image and voice of an interviewee on tape. Also known as a soundbite.
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40. Super: The writing that appears on the TV screen below the head and shoulders shot of the person talking. Also called a c.g. Or chyron.