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6 Asking a TV reporter questions will help you learn more about the job.
Who Can Become
a TV Reporter?
Girls and boys who are
good at writing, speaking,
and listening might want to
become TV reporters. A good
TV reporter also needs to
know how to ask questions.
A TV reporter is not shy!
TV reporters are
important helpers in the
neighborhood. They help
people find out what is
going on around them.
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How Can I Explore
This Job?
Does your community have
a local TV station? Call and
ask if you can visit. You
might even get a tour of
the newsroom! Ask any
reporters you meet what they
like best about their job.
Meet a TV Reporter!
This is Dana Hackett. Dana is a TV
reporter at station WVIR-TV/DT in
Charlottesville, Virginia. When she
is not reporting the news, she likes
to dance, play her flute, travel, and
root for her favorite sports teams.
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Danas job takes her to many
How Much Money different places in Charlottesville.
Will I Make? One day she may write a story
Most TV reporters make about a fire. Another day she may
between $17,000 and
$70,000 per year.
write a story about a local election.
What an exciting job!
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I Want to
Be a TV
Reporter!
I think being a TV
reporter would be
a great way to be
a neighborhood
helper. Someday you
may see me on the
evening news!
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Why Dont You
Try Being a TV
Reporter?
Do you think you would
like to be a TV reporter?
Read this list of facts.
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Index
Alfred I. DuPont- The National Association University of North
Columbia University of Broadcasters, 6 Carolina, 10
Award, 22 need for, 20
awards, 22 newspaper reporters, 17 video cameras, 13
newsrooms, 8, 15 video editing equipment,
blazers, 14 13
blouses, 14 producers, 17 videophones, 13
production assistants, 19 videotape, 5
camera operators, 17
Charlottesville, Virginia, 9, questions, 6, 7 writing, 5, 7
15, 16, 17 WVIR-TV, 9, 17
clothes, 14 radio reporters, 22
college, 10, 12 reading, 5
computers, 15 researchers, 19
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