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    Part of the video series: How to Be a TV News Reporter

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    Summary: Learn how to package a TV news report with expert journalism advice from an experienced broadcast journalist in this free television career video clip.

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    By Bill Albin
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    Bill Albin is currently the head reporter at WLAJ 53 in Lansing, Michigan. He attended Specks Howard Broadcasting school in Detroit, Michigan.read more

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    "BILL ALBIN: Hello, I'm Bill Albin. And on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to teach you what you need to know to be a local news reporter. In this clip, we're going to talk about packages. Packages are one of the four basic types of news stories. Of course, you have readers, you have VOs, you have VOSOTs, and of course, packages. What a package is, is it's a completely pre-produced story that includes the reporter. It includes video; it includes sound bites; it includes the entire story on tape. So what that does for us is it allows me, the reporter, to be doing many things at the same time. I could be out on location at this story, yet at six o'clock, you see me doing a different story. That allows me to do things for multiple shows at the same time. A package would have me doing what's called a "stand up." It would be a recorded me standing up or sitting down or doing whatever it is that's pertinent to the story. I would appear in the clip. I would then--you would see video and still hear me talking. Then you might have sound bites, and then you may see me again in it. But I'm not actually there at that time when you see that air. And what this allows me to do is still be in the program with this package at six o'clock, yet be enterprising or working on another story, for say, the 10 o'clock show. So at 10 o'clock, I may be live in the newsroom or live on location or doing something else, but it allows me to do multiple stories during my day and be a more productive reporter."

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