newsreading

Presenting current events

Newsreading is the activity or profession of presenting news broadcasts on television or radio.

A newsreader delivers prepared scripts, sometimes called an anchor or newscaster: She's been in newsreading for twenty years.

The term is more common in British than American English.

broadcasting

anchor

Secures ships to seabed

correspondent · studio · segment · live · breaking · primetime · newscast · presenter · desk · broadcast

literacy

informed

Given necessary knowledge

civic · media-savvy · critical · discerning · fact-checking · source · credibility · bias · misinformation · context

consumption

scrolling

Moving display content vertically

digest · feed · aggregator · headlines · morning · daily · curated · personalized · alerts · notifications

Opposites
media format

newsreadingprint journalism

News published on paper

newspaper publishing · news writing · blogging · editorial writing · silent reading

content type

newsreadingacting

Temporarily holding position

dramatic performance · storytelling · scriptwriting

communication direction

newsreadingnews gathering

Collecting information for publication

investigative reporting · interviewing · field reporting · news writing · research

Family

news, reading, read, reader, readers, reads, reread, rereading, misread

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G