The Anchorman's Ability Of Taking Charge Of The Live TV News Programme

The reporting of a series of significant news events since 2008 has made the audience feel increasingly the charm of live TV news program. Live TV news broadcast is a kind of broadcasting way in which the pictures, sounds, and the reporting of the incident by the pressman (including interview, explanation, evaluation) are transformed into TV signal and sent directly in the studio or on the site spot. It brings the advantages of TV news broadcasting (such as rapidness, truthfulness and intuitiveness) into full play, so it has been well received by the audience. In the meantime, it has also become the ace card of various TV stations to compete in the reporting of significant news events.The anchorman is the core and soul of live TV news program. As the last section of information communication, the anchorman is responsible not only for the integration of information and resources, designing agenda, screening the content and direction of the program, but also for coordinating to deal with some accidents. This is quite demanding for a anchorman. The anchorman should not only possess news knowledge, be able to handle the reporting, interview, analysis and comment of different topics, but also have good mentality, mastering the techniques of handling accidents and diminishing the crisis.The domestic live TV news program is developing very fast now. However, there are not enough anchormen that are qualified for this kind of program and well appreciated universally by the audience. This situation is partly due to the anchorman himself, and the TV media, as well as the higher educational institutions that cultivate the anchorman should also be blame.To improve the anchorman's ability to take charge of the live TV news program, the media should reform the criteria of recruiting anchormen to establish a team of journalists-oriented anchormen, and the producer-centered system should be transformed into anchorman-centered system. The higher educational institutions should explore the scheme of sub-categorizing live TV news program anchormen to cultivate specialized and professional anchormen, so that they can become the base of training excellent anchormen of live TV news program. It is only through concerted efforts that the anchormen's ability of managing live TV news program can be improved, so as to promote the development of live TV news course in China.