2. TV News

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• 2. TV News
• News delivered in voice and also an image that
  can enhance viewers understanding. TV news
  stories have audio and visual effects.

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Features of TV News

• 1. Correctness
• All the news that is written must be accurate. If
  the facts are not accurate it will invite
  problems to reporters and news organizations.

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• 2. Clarity
• This means that listeners will not misleading
  with the news.

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• 3. color
• It refers diversity of writing that allows the
  listener to get a glimpse of a story or an event
  being reported

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TV news Writing

• 1. Title
• 2. Lead
• 3. News body

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• 1. Title
• Eye catching
• Not too long

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• 2. Lead
• The most important part in TV news
• Should have 5W and 1H elements

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Types of Leads

• 1. Traditional leads (hard-news leads, main-point
  leads atau Direct Leads.
• This intro contains key facts which will be
  followed by an explanation why a person makes the
  decision, further plans and a few other things.

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• 2. Angle leads
• This intro is used to attract the attention of
  the listeners
• Example Do you have a coin 5 cents in 1951 / /
  If there is, you're a lucky / / An old coin
  collectors willing to buy it at a higher price /
  / /

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• 3. Umbrella lead or shotgun lead
• Contains many complex and comprehensive news.
  Such intro is also used to connect two or more
  forms of the same news.
• Example Floods in Pahang and Terengganu
  increasingly recovered but in Kelantan worsened
  by many more people were evacuated.

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• 4. Throwaway leads
• This intro does not give much information, but it
  is effective enough to attract the attention of
  the listeners
• Example The good news for civil servants / /

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• 5. Soft leads
• This gives an early intro to the listener about
  the content of the story will be taken. Such an
  approach is sometimes as "warming up" to the
  listener / viewer.
• Example Commuter accident at Sentul / Kuala
  Lumpur / / 30 passengers were reported injured / /

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• 6. The Quote Lead
• This intro includes a statement of a person who
  has news value.

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• 7. The Suspense Lead/ Delayed Lead
• This delay intro gives important information to
  the end of the story. Intention to make the
  audience remains interested until the end of the
  story.
• Example
• An creative elderly eangined bike / fully
  anticipated after this news / /

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News Body

• News reports should be comprehensive.
• Right in the use of language and grammar.
• The style of writing should live, have a meaning,
  color, and imagination.