TV Newsroom
What is a newsroom?
A newsroom can be defined as: "an office at a television or radio station or a newspaper where news is gathered and reports are prepared for broadcasting or publishing."
“The newsroom is a living, breathing organism, with each department separately working toward the same goal of putting a functioning show together, much like a body’s different organs. However, with the amount of people we have in the newsroom fluctuating throughout the day, some of which are moving from one position to another all within the same show, it can become very easy to get lost in the sea of different voices or lose control of such a large news team. Nick Edmonds, Annerberg TV news
Who is in the newsroom?
The number of jobs and people working in the newsroom vary depending on the media outlet. In smaller media outlets, at suburban weekly newspapers for example the newsroom will probably feature only a couple of journalists and a photographer. Sometimes the editor will be there, although in many suburban newspapers the editor has a roving role overseeing a number of newspapers in different offices.
In larger media outlets, such as metropolitan newspapers, radio or television, the newsroom is much bigger, with a larger staff of people. They can include:
· Journalists/reporters.
· Photographers.
· Camera operators.
· Sound and lighting technicians.
· Editing room staff (where television and radio stories are cut and compiled).
· Sub-editors (who edit newspaper journalists' stories and check them for any legal, factual or other problems before publication).
· Receptionists and News Desk coordinators.
· Archive or Library staff (sometimes)
· Graphic designers
· Editors or chiefs of staff - either in charge of sections of the media's coverage, or of its overall coverage.
FUNCTIONING OF A NEWSROOM
The newsroom is where the stories are
A newsroom can be defined as: "an office at a television or radio station or a newspaper where news is gathered and reports are prepared for broadcasting or publishing."
“The newsroom is a living, breathing organism, with each department separately working toward the same goal of putting a functioning show together, much like a body’s different organs. However, with the amount of people we have in the newsroom fluctuating throughout the day, some of which are moving from one position to another all within the same show, it can become very easy to get lost in the sea of different voices or lose control of such a large news team. Nick Edmonds, Annerberg TV news
Who is in the newsroom?
The number of jobs and people working in the newsroom vary depending on the media outlet. In smaller media outlets, at suburban weekly newspapers for example the newsroom will probably feature only a couple of journalists and a photographer. Sometimes the editor will be there, although in many suburban newspapers the editor has a roving role overseeing a number of newspapers in different offices.
In larger media outlets, such as metropolitan newspapers, radio or television, the newsroom is much bigger, with a larger staff of people. They can include:
· Journalists/reporters.
· Photographers.
· Camera operators.
· Sound and lighting technicians.
· Editing room staff (where television and radio stories are cut and compiled).
· Sub-editors (who edit newspaper journalists' stories and check them for any legal, factual or other problems before publication).
· Receptionists and News Desk coordinators.
· Archive or Library staff (sometimes)
· Graphic designers
· Editors or chiefs of staff - either in charge of sections of the media's coverage, or of its overall coverage.
FUNCTIONING OF A NEWSROOM
The newsroom is where the stories are