1. Actualities, Technology, Wraparounds, & Lead-ins
Broadcast Journalism
Actualities, Technology, Wraparounds, & Lead-ins

2. Actualities – What are they and why are they important??
What is an actuality?
A recorded segment of a newsmaker speaking, generally lasting from ten to twenty seconds.
Why are they important?
Think of it like a history question. Why would we rather have Christopher Columbus’ diary than a historian’s account of what happened?
It’s more believable and exciting – and who could capture what it was really like to “discover America” and kill everyone better than Columbus himself?

3. Technology How do we get actualities for our class?
Sign out recorder, go find the teacher, get an interview, plug recorder into the computer, edit in less than a minute. Done.
How did reporters get actualities before we had digital recording devices?
So, how as technology made this easier for us?

4. BTW… Newsbreak – a prerecorded break in the show With new technology…
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National news feeds
Local news inserts
With new technology…
They are recorded in advance with relative ease.
Can be edited to stretch or squeeze into the allocated time slot.

5. Wraparounds Defined: an actuality sandwich on newscaster bread.
(aka: a technique using the voice of the newscaster in the beginning and end of a story with the voice of a newsmaker [actuality] in the middle).
Note: sometimes the sandwich has more than one layer with multiple slices of bread. (see example).

6. Lead-ins
Every sound byte (actuality), wraparound, and report from the scene included in a news script must be introduced by a line or phrase known as a lead-in.
For example, a group may have two talents (James & Kyle), but the field reporter (Michelle) may have prerecorded a wraparound. Kyle would then write a lead-in to introduce Michelle’s prerecorded wraparound.
SAY WHAT?! … let’s look at the example.

8. This week’s reading assignment…
None.
Enjoy.
You’re welcome.
No problem.
Now move your desks into production teams, please.
Unless I took the whole period to do this PowerPoint.
Which is possible.