Master your news script, follow a standard format of one sentence per paragraph in the present tense, and identify key phrases to emphasize. Understand the mood of the story and breathe life into it with your delivery in just seconds. Newscasting requires showmanship, graphic presentation skills, and mastering facial expressions and voice intonation while addressing the audience directly. Continually practice and learn from experienced newscasters through different techniques to improve your anchoring skills.

1. Tips on News
Anchoring &
Newscasting

2. Tips on News Anchoring &
Newscasting
 Master your news copy or news script
very well. Check and re-check for
correct grammar and composition; the
heart of ALL great newscast begin –and
end – with the script. If you don’t have
a finely written material, then you don’t
have it!

3. Tips on News Anchoring &
Newscasting
 Follow the standard one sentence-one
paragraph mode; all time references
should be in the present tense;
 Strictly no compound sentences, no
lumping of complex ideas in one
sentence;

4. Tips on News Anchoring &
Newscasting
 Identify keywords or key phrases for
emphasis and highlighting during delivery;
always look out for the punchline, the one-
two punch of journalistic boxing;
 Understand well the mood or the overall
sense of the news story. Learn the art of
emphatizing ; there’s no room here for a
cold, indifferent, neutral, lifeless and
uncaring news reader. This is all about
breathing life to a news story, making it real
in a few airtime seconds;

5. Tips on News Anchoring &
Newscasting
 Newscasting is performance, showmanship
and the power of graphic presentation; he
who masters the nuances of the trade shall
rule the airlanes effectively and well;
 Projection is critical here: even the slightest
change or remake in your facial expression
can make a huge difference in the way
people or viewers perceive the news;

6. Tips on News Anchoring &
Newscasting
 Talk to the audience, not to the camera;
assume that there are only three people
in the crowd you are addressing;
 Vary your voice intonation to break
monotony –but don’t overdo it;

7. Tips on News Anchoring &
Newscasting
 Learn from the great newscasters from the
world’s major news networks both from the
present and the past: Walter Cronkite, Dan
Rather, Peter Jennings,Bernard Shaw,
Linden Soles, Wolf Blitzer, Jonathan Mann,
Dong Puno, Noli de Castro, Mike Enriquez,
Aljo Bendijo, Ted Failon, Weng Dela Peña,
Christianne Amanpour, Rosemary Church,
Tanya Beckett, among others.
 Think in complete phrases, not in words;

8. Tips on News Anchoring &
Newscasting
 Breathe from the diaphragm exhaling
as you deliver. To practice, go
swimming, jogging, marathon, lift
weights, et cetera;
 Remember music or symphony when
you deliver: cadence, rhythm, ebb and
flow, rise and fall of words and
phrases, the play with words rolling in
your mouth;

9. Tips on News Anchoring &
Newscasting
 Open your mouth enough when
newscasting, pronounce every word
distinctly; there is no virtue in
marathoning your verbal output at the
expense of correct enunciation and
pronunciation, among others;
 Practice, practice, practice!

10. Tips on News Anchoring &
Newscasting
 Do not stop learning new ways of doing
it better or re-learning old techniques.
Like life, anchoring or newscasting is
an evolving process.