As one of the most popular mass media, television has long been the major channel for people to receive news. Ever since its appearance, it has played an irreplaceable role in news conveying. Different from other news media, television news has many distinctive features from the perspectives of news writing and news presentation.
The one-year experience of English TV news announcing in Ningbo TV station not only enables the author to familiarize herself with the different procedures of news making, but also arouses a profound interest in her in the study of TV news writing and presenting. Based on her own experience, the author intends to explore ways to better enhance the effect of TV news broadcast from the perspectives of news writing and presentation.
This thesis is divided into three parts. Part One is a preface, Part Two consists of four chapters and Part Three is the conclusion.
The preface serves as an introduction to the whole thesis.
Chapter One introduces the background knowledge concerning TV news; it presents the development and the main categories of television news.
Chapter Two describes the four main procedures of TV news making: news collecting, camera shooting, news writing and news presentation.
Chapter Three analyzes the unique features of English TV news writing. It begins with the structural features and ends with the lexical and grammatical features of English TV news.
Chapter Four focuses on English TV news presentation. It first introduces the announcer’s functions and qualities, and then goes on to explore the skills applied in the performance of news presentation based on the author’s own experience.
The conclusion sheds light again on the main points of the previous chapters.
中文摘要
电视作为最受欢迎的大众传媒之一，早已成为人们获取新闻的主要渠道之一。自其面世以来，电视就在新闻传播上发挥着不可替代的作用。与其它新闻媒介不同，电视英语新闻在新闻写作及播报等方面都有着自身的鲜明特色。
本文作者因曾在宁波电视台新闻综合频道担任“英语新闻”主播长达一年之久，对英语新闻制作过程比较熟悉，并对电视英语新闻写作及播音甚感兴趣，因而以此为题尝试探讨其特点，并希望能结合自身的亲身实践，就如何提高英语新闻的播出效果提出自己的看法与建议。
本文共分三个部分。第一部分是序言部分，第二部分共有四章，第三部分是文章的结论部分。
文章序言部分是全文的一个导论。
第二部分第一章主要介绍有关电视英语新闻的背景知识；回顾了其发展史并介绍了电视新闻的主要节目类别。
第二章描述了电视英语新闻的四个主要制作过程：新闻采集、图像采集、新闻写作和新闻播报。
第三章从电视英语新闻的结构特点入手，继而阐述其词汇特征和语法特征，着重分析了电视英语新闻的写作特点。
第四章重点阐述了电视英语新闻的播报环节。作者从播音员的社会功能和应具备素质谈起，结合自身实践剖析了播报过程中的技能技巧。
本文的结论对文章前几个部分的主要内容作了回顾。
CONTENTS
PART ONE
PART TWO
1.1.1 The definition of news. 3
1.1.2 Different categories of news. 3
1.2 An introduction to TV news 4
1.2.1 The appearance of television.. 4
1.2.2 The development of TV news. 5
1.2.3 The categories of TV news. 7
Chapter 2: Main procedures of TV news making.. 10
2.4.1 A read-through of the script 14
2.4.2 Interpretation of the script 15
Chapter 3: TV news writing.. 16
3.1.4 Teasers and lead-ins. 28
3.1.5 Headlines, recaps and conclusions. 29
3.2 Distinctive lexical and grammatical features 31
3.2.1 The lexical features. 32
3.2.2 The grammatical features. 38
Chapter 4: News presentation.. 50
4.1 The functions & qualities 50
4.2.6 Vitality & enthusiasm… 55
PART THREE
