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Podcast: Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice
Episode: 0291 – ‘Reading In’
Description: 2021.10.18 – 0291 – ‘Reading In’ In broadcast newsrooms, the person who writes the introduction to a story (the cue) may not be the person who goes on and actually records the script of the story itself. That’s because larger newsrooms might have specialist writer and those who are on-air. In smaller newsrooms it’s because the newsreader (who will read the cue on air) is usually the person who finds and writes the whole story and asks a colleague to ‘voice up’ the main report (a ‘voicer’). The problem comes when the ‘voicer-upper’ doesn’t read the cue, before they record the...