News program

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A news program, news programme, news show, or newscast is a regularly scheduled radio or television program that reports current events. News is typically reported in a series of individual stories that are presented by one or more anchors. A news program can include live or recorded interviews by field reporters, expert opinions, opinion poll results, and occasional editorial content.

A special category of news programs are entirely editorial in format. These host polemic debates between pundits of various ideological philosophies.

Over the last several years, news programs (especially commercial network ones) have tended to become less oriented on hard news, and often regularly include "feel-good stories" or humorous reports as the last items on their newscasts, as opposed to news programs telecast more than thirty years ago, such as the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.[1] From their beginnings up until the last fifteen years or so, evening television news broadcasts continued featuring serious news stories right up to the end of the program, as opposed to today's editions featuring such anchors as Katie Couric, Brian Williams, and Diane Sawyer.

See also

• 24-hour television news channels
• 24-hour news cycle
• Broadcast Journalism
• Electronic field production (EFP)
• Electronic news-gathering (ENG)
• Journalism
• Local news
• News broadcasting
• News presenter
• Newsroom
• Outside broadcast
• Reporter