The interview with Tim Walters, Internet News Editor of the Wolverhampton's Express and Star, broke down which reporters are sent to which news scenes. Print news stories are usually accompanied with an online version, which may contain photos, videos or interactive graphics. It seems video journalists more often are sent to cover featured and well planned stories, unless there are major breaking news reports where as photo journalists are sent to document a news scene that must be reported very quickly and may be of less importance to a general reading audience.
Many successful news stories use the element of fear to hook a reader. With media moguls and investors pushing the profitability of their reporting agencies they are damaging the quality of their stories and occasionally angering their reporters. MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski refused to report on Paris Hilton's release from jail a few years back. She went as far as ripping up the story on camera and attempting to light the paper remnants on fire. This example is extreme, but it is important to retain integrity as a professional reporter, as so many of today's news anchors have thrown theirs out the window. Good reporters pay attention to detail and don't make assumptions. They will research their subject(s) before meeting them for an interview and they won't attempt to impose leading questions guiding someone into telling a "version" of the story instead of the actual story.
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