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Have you noticed TV reporters appearing on the screen with reports of different types of news? Have you thought how these reports are prepared?

Scorching sun, monsoonal showers or bitter winter can never stop them from reaching the news spot. The reports include political issues, people's protests, accidents, social events or thoughtful opinion of expert people, price hike, a celebration after a cricket match win and what not? TV reporters do not miss or delay to cover them.

It is said that old news is no news. Consequently, there is always a hurry among the reporters to be up-to-date in developing stories or even break the story first. Breaking news has become popular among the viewers, it means the first and fast appearance of a startling news on the channels. Once a journalist has been assigned by his editor to cover a story, a team is formed. Usually it consists of a journalist, a camera operator and sometimes a sound and or a light technician also join as crew. The journalist investigates the topic, plans interviewing the relevant people and puts forward a concrete idea of the topic which is going to be filmed. The news team then goes out to cover the news and collect the materials. The voice over is then recorded in a studio usually by the journalist or a news presenter. This is the voice that the audience hear while the video clip moves on narrating the story and the reporter is not seen on the screen at that time. It is done to make the visual material and the full story clear to the audience with information and explanation. The editor may edit the report before it is ready to go on air, but often there may be live reporting of incidents.

Fill in each gap with a suitable word based on the information of the text.

TV reporters are those who collect and present numerous (a) _____ on screen. TV reporters are always busy with (b) ______ up-to-date news and deliver them to the viewers through the channels. Breaking news always has high demand to the (c) ________ A team of news reporters does assigned tasks tactfully and completes a news for on air. Before presenting on screen, an (d) _______ can edit the report, but in case of live reporting, no editing is (e) _______ Thus, the reporters collect news, and present them to the viewers and the viewers watch the news on screen.

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(a) news (b) collecting (c) viewers (d) editor (e) possible

reporters are always busy with (b) news up-to-date news and deliver them to the viewers through the channels. Breaking news always has high demand to the (c) collecting A team of news reporters does assigned tasks tactfully and completes a news for on air. Before presenting on screen, an (d) viewers can edit the report, but in case of live reporting, no editing is (e) possible Thus, the reporters collect news, and present them to the viewers and the viewers watch the news on screen.

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