Television journalism is a blend of communication media images (visual) and sound (audio). Komunikasinya because the medium is the image and sound, in itself there are quite sharp differences between journalism in print media (print media) and media journalism radio (audio). In general, there are differences in:
1. Ways of collecting data (news gathering) television media should always be on the spot. No pictures, no news. In the case of certain words must less than pictures. The implication is the opportunity or mobility kru television should be higher than other types of media to ensure a keseketikaan the news is presented to the audience.
2. The use of different languages. Media use language television always said, the oral study with all its implications. There are experts who call this language as a picture. The broadcaster must understand that they are correct based on the image to write, write to pictures, or bertutur about image. And, as often happens, not paste the picture on the words first written.
3. If in the next 2-3 years to human-human televisei can not produce video journalists who can multi-skill demands of the team is on television far more serious than the charges of the team in the print media and radio. At least, to pursue one or two television news still requires harmonious cooperation between the reporter-camera-person and driver. Terbayangkan if not one third of the traffic jam, cranky, late or delayed shoptalk other technical. If the work was carried out together with the next, until up to the layer, can be, one of the largest in the complexity of managing a team of television is truly effective. One proof of success in television is to manage the preparation team is already a 70 percent guarantee of success for broadcast television news.
In general, the mechanism working in a news room televise the same as the contents of a mechanism working in the print media and radio. With a few different variants of a news room news room from another, working on television series include three main activities. First, the activities of news gathering. Second, the activities of news production, and third, presenting news events.
One thing that really needs to emphasized that the very mechanism in television news gathering that the planning done by the assignment editors slightly different from the planning done by the coordinator of the reporters and print media such as radio.
Derivasi technically very different is that when a kru televise down to the field, assignment of image and news must be synchronized. Ekstrimnya, an editor must assisgment ordered krunya more important to immediately get a picture rather than talking newsnya. Therefore, on the other extreme, when returning from the field, a producer / executive producer of television will not ask “what the news will be taken from the field by kru” but “what the picture you take from the field?” Is how the picture is much more important value for television rather than words. News Value judgment it depends on how important, how interesting, how dramatically, and how strong magnitude image obtained kru in the field. That also explains why some news or a look that featured the delivery by Television not necessarily preferred by the print media, or vice versa.
It is a characteristic of television is that News Productionnya should use the expression language, the language picture, pictures, and write about or report on image. Of course, said the use of language is very much implication, primarily because they had to actually sync between the picture and the words and sentences. Therefore, it is the obligation of a producer or the Reporter to ‘examine’ or ‘mempreview’ image before writing the script: the script is not the first menulus ago ditempel-paste the image.