When an anchor interviews the station’s field reporter on the scene, does the reporter know what questions they’re going to be asked? They always seem to be well prepared. I’ve never seen an interaction like:
>Anchor: How many people were in the building when it caught fire?
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>Reporter: Uhh, I dunno, I didn’t ask…
There must be some mutual prep ahead of time, but when is it done? And how does the anchor know what they want to know, until the reporter has covered the preliminaries? Is the field reporter in contact with a producer, who then writes questions for the anchor to ask while the anchor is live on other stories, and the anchor gets no say?
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It is all prepared in advance.
Remember that an outside broadcast isn’t a spur of the moment thing – the studio make the choice to send out a reporter along with all the crew and equipment needed to make the broadcast, and this is all tested and checked before they cue them in during the appropriate segment.
Part of this preparation is deciding on a set of questions that are to be asked, so the reporter can be prepared with a suitable answer – it would look pretty unprofessional to have a broadcast full of ‘um’ and ‘i don’t know’, and potentially missing out on some of the relevant information.
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