News presenter |
A news presenter is, broadly speaking, a person that presents a news program on television or radio. The term is not commonly used by people in the industry as they tend to use more descriptive, and sometimes country-specific, terms.
=Different roles=
==Newsreader==
A newsreader is a presenter whose role it is to read the news. In modern times, technology enables Journalists to broadcasting from relevant locations, reducing the role of the central presenter to that of a newsreader. The term is the most common one for a news presenter outside of the United States and Canada.
Since the 1980s some broadcasters have moved away from using newsreaders , many of whom were simply actors who delivered a script written by others and who played no part in news gathering. Stations such as the BBC and RTÃ? instead moved to use newscasters.
==Newscaster==
A newscaster is a presenter of a news bulletin who is himself or herself a working Journalist and news gathering, and a participant in compiling the script to be delivered in a news bulletin.
The term was coined in the 1980s to distinguish active journalists from newsreaders, the previous type of news presenter.
==News anchor==
A news anchor, is a television or radio personality that presents material prepared for a news program, and at times must improvise commentary for live presentation. The term is primarily used in the United States and Canada. Many news anchors are also involved in writing and/or editing the news for their programs. Sometimes news anchors interview guests and moderate panels or discussions. Some provide commentary for the audience during parades and other events.
The term anchor (sometimes anchorperson, anchorman, or anchorwoman) was coined by CBS News producer Don Hewitt. CBS cites its first usage as being on July 7, 1952 to describe Walter Cronkite s role at the Democratic and Republican Party National Conventions. The term may have been in reference to the anchor leg of a relay race.
=Criticism=
A common dogma among the general public equates news and news media with journalism , and this typically carries over to news anchors as well — associating media personalities with journalists — much to the consternation of many print journalists. In the current age of mass media and media consolidation, news anchors tend to be viewed as belonging to the infotainment or news trades, rather than to the journalism profession. There is a spectrum and scale however — the quintessential national news anchors from early days of television news tended to come from experienced backgrounds in print journalism. Since then, television news has largely been an entity in its own right, where print and television journalism can be viewed as divergent trades.
Adding to the distinction between journalists and anchors and reporters are human interest , personality, or celebrity news stories, which typically are directed by marketing departments based on a demographic appeal and audiences. Its commonly accepted that anchors are also media personalities, who may even be considered celebrities. The very nature of corporate network news requires its media personalties to use their public appeal to promote the networks investments, just as network broadcasts themselves (morning show, Television news magazines) schedule self-promotional stories, in addition to advertising. Critics might go so far as to view anchors as a weak link in the news trade, representing the misplacement of both the credit and the accountability of a news journalism organization —hence adding to a perceived erosion of journalistic standards throughout the news business. (See yellow journalism.)
In popular culture, the corporate news anchor is viewed as an archetype of the status quo and bland superficiality of corporate news media. As public people, they tend to receive an excess measure of social (and financial) reward for the hard work of true journalists behind the scenes. North America news anchors are frequently imitated and lampooned people who are hired for more their looks on TV than for any skill at journalism or intelligence. This kind of character is the subject of long running gags on Saturday Night Live , Second City Television , and the United Kingdom-produced The Muppet Show and the subject of sitcoms like Mary Tyler Moore (TV series) , Murphy Brown , and NewsRadio .
=Notable news presenters=
==American news anchors==
===Canadian news anchors===
===British newscasters=== *Zeinab Badawi, Channel 4 News
==British newsreaders==
*Michael Aspel, BBC Nine O Clock News in the 1960s. *Richard Baker, BBC Nine O Clock News co-presenter in the 1960s and 1970s. *Kenneth Kendall, BBC Nine O Clock News co-presenter in the 1960s and 1970s. *Angela Rippon, BBC, now ITV News Channel . *Peter Donaldson, BBC Radio 4
==Australian newsreaders==
*Brian Henderson TCN-9 Nine network *Mal Walden ATV-10 Network Ten
==Hong Kong newscasters==
*Cheung Wai-tsz, Asia Television Ltd. *Lavender Cheung, Cable TV News 2 *Alison Chiu, TVB Jade
==Indonesian newscasters==
*Ade Novit, RCTI *Atika Suri, RCTI *Desi Anwar, Metro TV *Helmi Johannes, VOA Indonesia *Sandrina Malakiano, Metro TV
==Irish newscasters==
*Brian Dobson RTÃ? *Anne Doyle RTÃ? *Sean Duignan RTÃ? Six-One News . *Grainne Seoige Sky News Ireland
==Irish newsreaders==
*Don Cockburn, RTÃ? *Derek Davis, RTÃ? in the 1980s. *Charles Mitchel, RTÃ? . *Maurice O Doherty, RTÃ? .
==Israeli newsreaders==
*Haim Yavin, Channel 1
==Mexican newsreaders==
*Joaquin Lopez Doriga, El Noticiero , Televisa *Javier Alatorre, Hechos , TV Azteca
==Philippine newscasters==
*Angelo Castro Jr., The World Tonight , ABS-CBN News Channel *Tina Monzon-Palma, The World Tonight , ABS-CBN News Channel *Julius Babao, TV Patrol (up to 2004) and TV Patrol World , ABS-CBN *Karen Davila, TV Patrol World , ABS-CBN *Ted Failon, TV Patrol World , ABS-CBN *Ces Drilon, Insider , ABS-CBN *Ricardo Puno, Insider , ABS-CBN *Mel Tiangco, 24 Oras , GMA Network *Mike Enriquez, 24 Oras , GMA Network *Vicky Morales, Saksi , GMA Network *Arnold Clavio, Saksi , GMA Network *John Susi, Sentro , ABC-5 *Ali Sotto, Sentro , ABC-5 *Noli De Castro, TV Patrol , ABS-CBN, up to 1998 *Korina Sanchez, TV Patrol , ABS-CBN, up to 2004 *Loren Legarda-Leviste, The World Tonight , ABS-CBN, up to 1998
==Romanian newsreaders==
*Andreea Esca, PRO TV *Andreea Berecleanu, PRO TV *Alessandra Stoicescu, Antena 1 *Mona Nicolici, Antena 1 *Cristian Tabara, PRO TV *Melania Medeleanu, Realitatea TV
==Colombian newsreaders==
*Angela Patricia Janiot, CNN en Español *Claudia Palacios, CNN en Español *Silvia Corzo, Caracol TV
=See also=
*list of television reporters
=External links=
*[http://www.setstudio.com/ SetStudio, the Internet s television news set design resource]|
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