13 Anchoring I
The anchor is the creation of television journalism. In no other medium is a single person so involved in presenting the news. Nowhere else does one person have to be so informed.
The anchor is the single most important on-camera position in all of television. It is a huge responsibility, an enormous job and wildly rewarding professionally and personally. In many cases, the anchor has become the face of the station or the network.
In defining the anchor position, it is best to go back to the little known and often misunderstood root of the title. You may think of an ocean anchor, the device holding the ship steady in all kinds of weather. That fits. It 's a logical definition. But that wasn 't how it started.
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