I listened to a story on my computer. It was a story on National Public Radio from Wednesday night and it talked about the coal mine explosion in West Virginia. The main difference I noticed from the beginning is that there were numerous sound bites.
The story had a sound bite from a man who worked for Federal Mine Safety and another one from a reporter who was on the scene. I believe the sound bite with the man working for Federal Mine Safety is called an actuality story. And the part where they had the reporter on the scene was a voicer. The audio in both cases were only about 10 seconds long but gave the story more description than what the news announcer gave.
I also noticed the sentences that the announcer said were shorter and more direct. The announcer actually didn’t say too much, she set up the story and then had sound bites to describe what was going on. I think if I were to put it in terms of a written story, the announcer said the lead and second paragraph and the sound bites did the rest of the story.
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