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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I wouldn’t call it scripted, but we all work in the same newsroom, so the anchors know the basic info the reporters are dealing with. We all have earpieces, so producers can talk to us. What you assume is a two way conversation actually has more people involved. Also, these aren’t difficult questions. They are all some form of the basic who/what/where/when/why. Before the camera is on, reporter has been on scene getting information. Any journo that can’t answer basic questions on scene is in the wrong field.
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