This document discusses various types of live reporting in journalism, including: - Types of live reporting such as investigative journalism, court reporting, accident reporting, political reporting, and sports reporting. - Characteristics of broadcast journalism such as keeping stories brief, using simple language, and carefully attributing sources of information. - Tips for successful live reporting such as relaxing and sticking to what you know. - Uses of live interviews and pieces to camera to add context and information for viewers. - Things to remember like looking relaxed and choosing appropriate attire when delivering live reports.

1. Live Reporting

2. What Is Reporting?????
Reporting may refers to any
activity that leads to reports in
particular business reporting,
data reporting etc.

3. Types of Reporting
• investigative journalism
• Court journalism
• Accident journalism
• Political journalism
• Fashion journalism
• Business journalism
• Sports reporting
• Live reporting

4. Broadcasting Journalism &
Characteristics
• Keep stories brief
• Keep it simple
• Attribution: telling the audience the source of your
information
• Contractions, abbreviations, Numbers have to be
carefully used.
Broadcasting journalism write for
the ears rather than the eyes.

5. Going Live
• Journalists can file a story from almost
anywhere on the planet and viewers can see
live pictures of the most inhospitable or
remote spots.
The key to successful
live reporting is to
relax and stick to
what you know.
Tom symonds
BBC's trasport correspondent

6. Live 2 Way / Q&A
• It's important to keep your Answers short.
• Rambling in lives soon loses the audience.
• Another good use of lives is to use them after
a reporters package
Interview between Reporter
and Presenter

7. Piece to Camera
The piece to Camera or stand up cam help to
establish the reporters authority and Credibility
but you have to have something to say.
A piece to Camera should add information for
which you don't have pictures or make a point
that increases the viewer's understanding of the
story. Make sure that background to the piece of
camera is pertinant and interesting.

8. Types Piece to Camera
• Introduction piece
• Summery or Comment Piece
• 'Where the action is' piece
• Bridge & Link piece
• Demonstration stand up

9. Live Reporting: Things to be
remembered
• It can be a nerve cracking
delivering report, but you need to
be looked relaxed.
• Natural body movements
• What you wear.

10. Outside Broadcasting (OB)
• OB is the electronic field production (EFP) of
television or radio programmes from a remote
place to television studio.
• The mobile production control room (PCR) is
known as "production truck", "Scanner " (a
BBC term), "mobile unit" , "remote truck" "OB
van" or "Live eye"..

13. Parts of OB van
. Television crew is the first part and
largest part, the video production area.
. Audio mixing
. VTR area
. Video control Area
. Transmission