How to write a news anchor script

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Review and discuss the stand-ups in class.After students read the entire script, and understand the story, they are sent to the halls in pairs, where each kid records a stand-up to fill the hole.Leave a “hole” in the story, the place where a reporter stand-up could/should go.Hand out a short simple script for a news story that could happen at our school (I make up the script).One of the assignments I use during the first semester of Broadcast Journalism I, our introductory class for sophomores, goes something like this.

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