News presenter

News Presenter

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News presenter

A news presenter is, broadly speaking, a person that presents a news show

News program

A news program, news programme, news show, or newscast is a regularly scheduled radio program or television program that reports current events....
on television

Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
, radio

Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
or the Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available server and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory....
. The term is not commonly used by people in the industry as they tend to use more descriptive - and sometimes country-specific - terms. Examples include "newsreader", "newscaster", and "news anchor".

>newscaster is a presenter of a news bulletin who is himself or herself a working journalist

Journalist

A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that aren't biased....
and news gatherer as well as a participant in compiling the script to be delivered in a news bulletin.

Prior to the television

Television

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Newscaster

A newscaster is a presenter of a news bulletin who is himself or herself a working journalist

Journalist

Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
era, radio-news broadcasts often mixed news with opinion and each presenter strove for a distinctive style. These presenters were referred to as commentators. The last remaining news presenter of this type is Paul Harvey

Paul Harvey

Paul Harvey Aurandt , better known as Paul Harvey, was an United States radio Presenter for the American Broadcasting Company Radio Networks....
. The term newscaster came into common use to distinguish presenters of straight news broadcasts from commentators.

However in the UK, ITN's presenters are referred to as newscasters (and have been since the 1950s), whilst those working at the BBC are called newsreaders.

News anchor

In the United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
and Canada

Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
, presenters of news broadcasts are referred to as news anchors (sometimes anchorperson, anchorman, or anchorwoman) instead of "newscasters". An anchorman traditionally is a television personality who presents material prepared for a news program and, at times, must improvise commentary for live presentation. Many news anchors are also involved in writing and/or editing the news for their programmes.

The term "anchorman" was coined by producer Don Hewitt

Don Hewitt

Don S. Hewitt is an United States television news producer and executive, best known for creating 60 Minutes, the CBS news magazine in 1968, currently the longest-running prime time broadcast on American television....
. PBS cites its first usage as being on July 7, 1952, to describe Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite

Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. is a retired United States Broadcast journalism, best known as anchorman for the The CBS Evening News for 19 years ....
's role at the Democratic

1952 Democratic National Convention

The 1952 Democratic National Convention was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois, Illinois from July 21 to July 26, 1952, the same coliseum the Republicans had gathered in a few weeks earlier....
and Republican National Conventions

1952 Republican National Convention

The 1952 Republican National Convention was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois, Cook County, Illinois, Illinois from July 7 to July 11, 1952 and nominated the popular general and war hero Dwight David Eisenhower of Kansas, also known as "Ike," for President of the United States and the anti-Communism crusading United...
. According to Hewitt, the term was in reference to the "anchor leg" of a relay race

Relay race

During a relay race, members of a team take turns running, orienteering, swimming, cross-country skiing, biathlon, or skating parts of a circuit or performing a certain action....
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News presenter

Different roles

Newscaster

News anchor

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