Analyze, interpret, and broadcast news received from various sources.
<ul><li>Write commentaries, columns, or scripts, using computers.</li><li>Coordinate and serve as an anchor on news broadcast programs.</li><li>Edit news material to ensure that it fits within available time or space.</li><li>Analyze and interpret news and information received from various sources to broadcast the information.</li><li>Examine news items of local, national, and international significance to determine topics to address, or obtain assignments from editorial staff members.</li><li>Select material most pertinent to presentation, and organize this material into appropriate formats.</li><li>Gather information and develop perspectives about news subjects through research, interviews, observation, and experience.</li><li>Present news stories, and introduce in-depth videotaped segments or live transmissions from on-the-scene reporters.</li></ul>