Senior Reporters in the News and Current Affairs Departments of the Africa Young Voices (AYV) Media Empire, referred to as ‘The Newsroom’, have completed an intense in-house orientation for junior reporters on Broadcast Script Writing and related topics.
The Orientation according to the Deputy Director of News and Current Affairs, Elizabeth Momoh, is to capacitate the junior reporters and further refresh the seniors on how to write appropriate news scripts for broadcast.
Momoh said: “We noticed some challenges in news scripts written, especially from junior reporters. With senior reporters in-house, who have gone through local and international media trainings, we thought it prudent for them to serve as trainers for their juniors.
“So, we organise the one-day orientation to get the senior reporters serving as trainers on selected important topics instead of brining in external facilitators.”
One of the facilitators, Joseph Johnson, orientated the reporters on topics including; Writing News Introductions, Use of ‘Say’ and ‘Said’ in a Script, Captioning, Sentence Structure and Word-Count, Introduction to Soundbite and Sound On Film (SOF) and Words to Avoid in Script Writing among other areas.
Another facilitator, Samuel Ibahim Koroma made a presentation on Piece-To-Camera, Captioning and Sound-On-Film, thereby simplifying the need for reporters to be perfect in doing a good broadcast piece.
Climaxing the orientation, participants were tasked on individual practical exercise on topics discussed in the orientation aiming to assess their level of understanding.
The News and Current Affairs/Newsroom, according to the Chief Executive Officer of the AYV, Ambassador Anthony Navo Jr. is the best department at AYV.
For years now, the Department has consecutively won the Company’s end of year staff awards as Best Department.
Africa Young Voices (AYV) Media Empire is a leading media company providing cutting-edge communication solutions. AYV operates three television channels, radio, newspaper, and a printing press.
AYV also broadcasts on DStv Channel 399 in Sierra Leone and across Africa. AYV International is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with networks across the world including in Africa, Asia, Europe, Pacific, the Americas, and Caribbean.
AYV has established a strategic partnership with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the world service programme in London. This partnership offers both AYV and the BBC a world – class broadcasting platform and resources for audiences across the world. More about: www.ayvnews.com.
