live reporting
News as it happens
Live reporting is the practice of broadcasting or publishing news as events unfold, rather than after the fact.
A reporter on the scene delivers updates in real time: We're going live to our correspondent at the courthouse.
The term extends to text-based coverage—live blogs, social media threads—where updates appear continuously as a story develops.
- breaking newsNewly unfolding events reported
- breaking storyNewly emerging news event
- news alertUrgent information notice
- correspondentJournalist covering distant events
- news anchorTelevision journalism presenter
anchor · journalism · television · on air · newsroom · media · political debates · microphone · livestream · eyewitness · webcast · mobile phone · broadcast · real-time · up to the minute · call-ins · press conferences · sound bite
- journalismreporters, interview, editors, student editors, school paper
- journalism reportingnews, breaking news, news gathering, investigative journalism, feature writing
- sports culturefan clubs, highlights, commentary, analysis, coverage
temporal immediacy
live reportingdelayed broadcast
Program aired after recording
archival footage · replay · rebroadcast · historical documentary · news digest