News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists

News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists typically perform the following tasks: • Write commentaries, columns, or scripts, using computers. • Coordinate and serve as an anchor on news broadcast programs. • Examine news items of local, national, and international significance to determine topics to address, or obtain assignments from editorial staff members. • Analyze and interpret news and information received from various sources to broadcast the information. • Receive assignments or evaluate leads or tips to develop story ideas. • Research a story's background information to provide complete and accurate information. • Arrange interviews with people who can provide information about a story. • Gather information and develop perspectives about news subjects through research, interviews, observation, and experience. • Select material most pertinent to presentation, and organize this material into appropriate formats. • Present news stories, and introduce in-depth videotaped segments or live transmissions from on-the-scene reporters. • Establish and maintain relationships with individuals who are credible sources of information. • Report news stories for publication or broadcast, describing the background and details of events. • Revise work to meet editorial approval or to fit time or space requirements. • Review and evaluate notes taken about news events to isolate pertinent facts and details. • Investigate breaking news developments, such as disasters, crimes, or human-interest stories. • Review written, audio, or video copy, and correct errors in content, grammar, or punctuation, following prescribed editorial style and formatting guidelines. • Report on specialized fields such as medicine, green technology, environmental issues, science, politics, sports, arts, consumer affairs, business, religion, crime, or education. • Determine a published or broadcasted story's emphasis, length, and format, organizing material accordingly. • Transmit news stories or reporting information from remote locations, using equipment such as satellite phones, telephones, fax machines, or modems. • Check reference materials, such as books, news files, or public records, to obtain relevant facts.