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Electronic News Gathering

This chapter explores both types of electronic news gathering (ENG): recorded coverage and live coverage. Recorded coverage consists of audio and video that you shoot to be edited into a story later. Live coverage is the audio and video feed that you send to your home station or organization to be transmitted live via television or the Internet. Before examining both types of coverage, it is important to understand why this training is important, because more and more is expected of electronic journalists in the world of news today.

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