How do they match: News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists

  • News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists

  • Film Critic
  • Editorial Writer
  • Multi-Skilled Operator

  • Conduct taped or filmed interviews or narratives.
  • Discuss issues with editors to establish priorities or positions.
  • Examine news items of local, national, and international significance to determine topics to address, or obtain assignments from editorial staff members.
  • Photograph or videotape news events.
  • Present news stories, and introduce in-depth videotaped segments or live transmissions from on-the-scene reporters.
  • Review written, audio, or video copy, and correct errors in content, grammar, or punctuation, following prescribed editorial style and formatting guidelines.
  • Revise work to meet editorial approval or to fit time or space requirements.
  • Take pictures or video, and process them for inclusion in a story.
  • Write columns, editorials, commentaries, or reviews that interpret events or offer opinions.

  • Edit written materials.
  • Operate communications, transmissions, or broadcasting equipment.
  • Operate still or video cameras or related equipment.
  • Coordinate reporting or editing activities.