Basic TV Reporting, 2nd Edition

Make the Most of Your Talent

Television reporters are expected to be bright, eager, inquisitive and persistent. These are the minimum qualities you should already possess before beginning to develop ‘performing’ skills for the screen. Nothing can be achieved without them, so make sure they come across–to your producer or programme editor, to those you deal with every day in the pursuit of your journalism and, above all, to your audience. Understand every story before you embark on it. Make use of any background material which might prove helpful. Think. Be informed: there is nothing worse than a reporter who is made to look foolish by an interviewee because of his or her own ignorance. Read a variety of newspapers and magazines. Watch television, ...