Guidelines for News Casting

1. Find someone who is organized to be the producer(leader)

2. Pick someone with a good on camera presence to be the anchor.
 Responsible for introducing each news segment in the newscast, they will act as the
guide for the newscast
 You can choose two people to act as anchors for the newscast (optional)
3. Assign several reporters to cover different stories, if you have a limited number of reporters, you
may ask the reporters to cover more than one news story.
4. Create two (2) to four (4) minutes news segment.
 The news segments should be short and to the point.
 The news is usually created by the writers.
5. Have a variety of news segment
 Weather news
 Sports
 Current issues (poverty, crime rate, health care, education etc.
6. Maintain a friendly, conversational tone in the news segment.
 Avoid sentences longer than two lines and run-on sentences.
 Use simple terms that are accessible for the audience.
7. Order the news segments.
 Put news segments in a particular order.
 Star with the most engaging story first.
8. Put in transitions between news segments.
 The anchor will appear between each news segment and say a few words to transition
from segment to segment. (show sample video)
 Presentation of Excellent Good Fair Poor
Knowledge and ideas: 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point

Organization: Information is organized Information is Information is not Information is

and easily understand. somewhat organized, organized well, unorganized and
Information was may not follow the might be missing a difficult to follow
presented in an newscast format clearly. leading/ending newscast format.
organized way that sentence or
understand. information is out of
order.
Speaks clearly Speaks clearly and Speaks clearly and Speaks clearly and Does NOT speak
distinctly all of the time distinctly all of the time distinctly all of the clearly and distinctly
and no mispronounce and no mispronounces time and no most of the time
words. 1 to 6 words. mispronounces 1 or AND/OR
more words. mispronounces more
than 1 word.
Enthusiasm Facial expression and Facial expression and Facial expression Facial expression and
body language show a body language show a and body language body language depict
strong interest and strong interest and show some interest apathy or boredom
enthusiasm about the enthusiasm about the and enthusiasm with the topic.
topic throughout the topic throughout the about the topic
newscast but it is not newscast but it is throughout the
overdone. somewhat overdone. newscast.
Group work The group functioned The group functioned The group Some members of
exceptionally well. All pretty well. Most functioned fairly the group were often
members listened to members listened to well. But dominated off task AND/OR
shared with and share with and by one or two were overtly
supported the efforts of supported the efforts of members. The disrespectful to
others. The group (all others. The group (all group (all members) others in the group
members) was almost members) was almost was almost always AND/OR were
always on task. always on task. on task. typically disregarded
by other group
members.
Presentation Uses excellent speech Uses good speech Uses some speech Does not use speech
Information presented presentation guidelines presentation guidelines presentation presentation
using appropriate including: including: guidelines including: guidelines including:
presentation  Good Posture  Good Posture  Good Posture  Good Posture
guidelines.  Eye Contact  Eye Contact  Eye Contact  Eye Contact
 Clear/Loud voice  Clear/Loud voice  Clear/Loud  Clear/Loud
 Confidence  Confidence voice voice
 Confidence  Confidence
TOTAL:
Assessment: Equivalent Grade:
Organization
Speaks Clearly
20- 100%
Enthusiasm
15-95%
Group work 10-85%
Presentation 5-75%
TOTAL SCORE