newsreaders read direct from autocue ?

[tali122]

do newsreaders read direct from autocue or do they revise and memorise the sheets of paper on their desks?

[NORMANTHEDOG]

autocue most of the time.

[denisdenis]

Both actually - newsreaders are responsible for proof-reading the 'hard-copy' and so they have an idea of running order as well as the content and context of the news. They then read from the auto-cue ... until it goes wrong!

[Quizmonster]

Whatever they read it from, I just wish they'd do so in sentences or at least phrases instead of single words. Has anyone else noticed that, in recent months, they all seem to have taken to saying things like,
"So what...should...the government...be doing...about...the pension...situation?"
It's as if they are delivering the news to the educationally subnormal. (Come to think of it, maybe they are!)

[heathfield]

Possibly caused by a slow auto-cue, QM. And they're having to attend to audio and visual instructions from the producer's team.

[indie_chick5]

Yeah, they get briefed about the news in topic before they broadcast live on air and read the detailed stuff from the autocue so if it does go wrong they can bluff their way out of it....sometimes. I'm doing a journalism degree so I know a lot of useless information about it.