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Dear students,

In order to produce two news bulletins during this term, as agreed in the class, we need the following posts to be filled:

Two Senior Broadcast Journalists, each one will be supervising a team of the following members:

(2) Broadcast Journalists (They are going to edit their reports themselves) / one of them will play an Interview Producer as well + (1) Correspondent (i.e. to report from another university) + (1) Sports Reporter + (2) Anchors + (1) Director + (1) Cameraman (i.e. for external shooting).

Candidates for the post of Anchor should be interviewed first by a board of four (Me + Miss. Nehal + a student from the class representing the audience + a professional BBC journalist from Cairo office) - Presentation, as well as the whole bulletin, will be in English. Both Anchors must be very good in it.

Please, make sure the two teams are already formed by Monday 15 October.

Training on editing and shooting should start ASAP as well. Next week you will be trained on making reports. The week after you will have to submit your reports. That's why you need to be fully aware of how to shoot and edit.

Good luck!

Some of my BBC reports...

TV Newsroom Hierarchy

A TV Newsroom: How It Simply Works

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  At the top of a TV newsroom is the news director (editor-in-chief), who manages the day-to-day operations. He/she may exercise significant judgment over presentation of the news broadcast.

  Reporting to the editor-in-chief are a producer (senior broadcast journalist / SBJ), who manages production of content and provide guidance for the development of stories. SBJs book satellite feeds and manage the timing of the show.

  Assignment editors, who may also report to the editor-in-chief, assign stories to reporters and broadcast journalists (BJs) based on tips, items on the newswires and competitors' broadcasts. Reporters generally report to SBJs.

News Production Personnel

Nontechnical News Production personnel:

Producer (Senior Broadcast Journalist): In charge of producing a news bulletin and responsible for all personnel working on the production process and for coordinating technical and nontechnical production elements. Often serves as writer and occasionally as director.

Production assistant (PA) or Broadcast Assistant (BA): Assists producer and director during actual production. During rehearsal takes notes of producer’s and/or director’s suggestions for show improvement.

News director (Editor-in-charge): In charge of all news operations and bears ultimate responsibility for all newscasts.

Assignment editor: Assigns reporters to specific events to be covered.

Reporter: Gathers the stories. Often reports on-camera from the field.

Video journalist (VJ): Reporter who shoots and edits his or her own footage.

Script writer: At smaller stations (e.g. BBC Arabic) and in corporate television, the scripts are often written by the director or producer.

Anchor: Principal presenter of newscast, normally from a studio set.

Director: In charge of directing talent and technical operations and ultimately responsible for transforming a script into effective video and audio messages. At small stations may often be the producer as well.

Floor manager: In charge of all activities on the studio floor. Coordinates talent, relays director’s cues to talent, and supervises floor personnel. Except for large operations, is responsible for setting up scenery and dressing the set - Also called floor director and stage manager.

Art director: In charge of the creative design aspects of show (set design, location, and/or graphics).

Graphic artist: Prepares computer graphics, titles, charts, and electronic backgrounds.

Makeup artist: Does the makeup for all talent.

Costume designer (Stylist): Supervises how the talent look like on screen.

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 Technical News Production personnel:

Sound designer: Constructs the complete sound track (dialogue and sound effects) in post-production.

Camera operators: Operate the cameras.

Director of photography (DOP): In charge of compositing the shots and occasionally lighting the studio

Lighting director (LD): In charge of lighting.

Audio technician: In charge of all audio operations. Works audio console during the show - Also called audio engineer.

Character generator (C.G.) operator: Types and/or recalls from the computer the names and other graphic material to be integrated with the video image.

Video / picture editor: Operates post-production editing equipment. Often makes or assists in creative editing decisions.

A BBC News Bulletin To Study

Profile: Martine Dennis - Presenter of BBC World Today on Friday

Martine currently presents The World Today on Friday. The programme is simulcast on the BBC News Channel, BBC One and BBC World News. 

Martine is an experienced newsreader born on January 29th, 1961 in London to carribean parents.
Ethically black, her long career started as a graduate trainee at LBC/IRN radio. She started making a couple of radio documentaries notably the Zimbabwe - Five years after independence documentary.

She joined the BBC in 1985 as a correspondent for the Iran and Iraq war as well immersing herself in all the conflicts around the globe. She came back to London as the first female producer/presenter of Focus on Africa from Bush house.

Dennis took a break from the BBC in 1989 by joining the Sky News which started on the same year. She became an overnight news presenter until 1991 when she went to South Africa. There, she freelanced for the BBC News. Also, she worked as a presenter and reporter for MNet’s weekly Carte Blanche Programme.

She came back from South Africa in 1995 to briefly work for the BBC again, as a correspondent for BBC1’s Here and Now weekly programme. She then joined the BBC World in 1996 where she has been working ever since. She is considered to be one of the best news anchors in the BBC.

Martine Dennis is mother to two children and lives in London.

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Source: BBC Website