Re: Journalistic Cliches 101 "At the end of the day"

On 30 Sep 2005, Mike Lyle wrote
> Tony Cooper wrote:
> [...]

>> I write, of course, from a US perspective. We don't use the
>> term "newsreader" or the term "presenter". We apply the term >>
>> "journalist" to anyone that appears in the field of news
>> dissemination. >> That's why the term "journalist" applied to
>> someone that doesn't have any claim to the title grates on me.

>> We have other terms, of course. We have "news anchors" and "news
>> co-anchors". These are descriptions for the studio-bound people who
>> give us the Six O'Clock News every night. They give us the news and
>> then cut to a scene where a "field reporter" is standing in front of
>> some place where something happened earlier. At the end of the
>> field reporter's comments, the scene shifts back to the studio
>> where the anchors solemnly thank the field reporter.

> [...]

Re: UK practice

> Radio is different: mere news _items_ are read by announcers, but
> radio news _stories_ are real journalism.

And the radio news-readers are identified as such: "The news is read
by Charlotte Green".

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