I/41Y2Mlg3dtL.jpg' alt='Nine West Employee Handbook' title='Nine West Employee Handbook' />Television Scripts Handbook of Journalism. Home A Guide to Reuters Operations Video Reuters Video News Handbook Television Scripts. THE TEMPLATEThe i. NEWS template is the core of our scripting operation. After our video has been sent, sending the template triggers its delivery to clients. It gives clients key information to allow them to start using the video. Heres an example, ready to be sent NOTE HIGHER RES FILE TO BE UPLOADED On the following pages youll see how to fill the template in some fields do not need to be filled in by non DI bureaux but these are highlighted below. How Is A Rainbow Formed. PLEASE NOTE SCRIPTING EXAMPLES ARE ITALICISED IN THIS GUIDE FOR READING CLARITY WE DO NOT ITALICISE OUR SCRIPTS IN INEWS. SLUGProducers normally your story will already be named before it is given to you, but if you are naming a story yourself, or an editor, there are some things to remember. The main rule is that TV, text and pix use the same slugs as each other. Check for text coverage on your story first check the list at the top in the WNE LOG queue in i. News check Newsplanner and if still unsure, your multimedia desk should be able to help. Your slug will begin like this it should include two hyphens and a forward slash. STORY NUMBER SUBJECT SUBJECTe. MIDEAST CRISIS1. 1912. Commissioner of agriculture. The commissioner of agriculture shall be elected by the qualified voters of the state at the same time and in the same manner. We explore the relationship between employee trust and workplace performance. We establish a theoretical link between employee trust and firm performance. The Occupational Outlook Handbook is the governments premier source of career guidance featuring hundreds of occupationssuch as carpenters, teachers, and. EUROPE MIGRANTSIt is the two subject words before the forward slash which must be identical with pix and text. After the slash, you will then add further words to reflect the actual content of the story. Welcome to Mountain Heritage High Schools online home. We hope that you find it useful and informative. MHHS is a rural consolidated high school located on the west. Amazing things happen when you Go West. Get to know the University of West Georgia, the most forwardthinking, futureoriented institution in the state. Go WestThis may or may not contain the location of the story, depending on what is appropriate. MIDEAST CRISISMOSUL1. EUROPE MIGRANTSFRANCEIf necessary, you can always add further hyphens, e. EUROPE MIGRANTSFRANCE LEPENOne thing you do need to keep in mind, is that the total number of characters including the number, hyphens and forward slashes in the slug must be no more than 4. In the story above, the number of characters is 2. Please note if text, pix and video have all worked together on a multimedia operation for a specific story, then the entire slug must be identical across all three platforms. If you are aware that it is a multimedia story, then please double check which slug is being used. There are also occasions when text uses more than one word before or after the hyphen. E. g. NORTHKOREA NUCLEARKIM or PEOPLE GEORGEMARTIN Again, we should follow their lead. If you want to know more about texts slugging procedures, you can read about it here. NewsPresentation elq2. Campaign. Id3. 36SlugsandSlugging. What happens if text is not doing the story If video covers a story before text has filed, you must still check with text whether they are covering and agree a slug as usual. But if text is not covering the story, then we have a little more leeway in choosing a slug that suits us. Please still try to follow existing procedures, e. HEALTH MEASLES. If you have any doubts please check with a regional or duty editor, London output editor or night editor depending on the timewhere you are. The following three paragraphs are for DI bureauxhubsLondon producers FEEDThe names of the feeds your story will be sent to. During dayside, this will be decided by your local editorLondon output editor. If you are doing it yourself, heres how select the feed from the drop down menu marked FEED 1. You can send to a secondary feed at the same time. FEED 2. EUROVISIONWe also send material to the Eurovision news exchange, which includes most European state broadcasters, but could include others as well. Unless specified, all Reuters copyright material can be permissioned for Eurovision. We do not want to permission material uppicked from other Eurovision members. Dayside, your local editorLondon output editor will decide if a story should go to Eurovision and will tick this box accordingly. If you think something SHOULD be permissioned for Eurovision and the box has not been ticked, please check with the Output Editor. When there is no editor available and you must make the decision yourself, please check with London intake desk if theres any doubt. PRIORITYStories are generally sent as a Priority 4. The London Output Editor, Editor of the Day Eo. D or Night Editor may change this to a higher priority or ask you to, depending on how they are managing the flow of stories through WNE. These are the only people able to authorise a change of priority, so please call in to request an upgrade. The lower the number, the higher the priority. The following paragraphs are for every producer HEADLINEThe headline should be short, accurate and reflect what is seen in the edit. Sometimes the headline used by text in the wire will be ideal, sometimes it will not. Headline Basics. Try to keep the headline down to around six words if possible. Headlines should be written in the present tense i. Seattle explosion injures nine firefighters not Seattle explosion has injured nine firefighters. Use the active voice, i. Pakistan earthquake kills 1. Ten are killed in Pakistan quake. Refer to the name of a country, city or well known figure to indicate location of story. Generally SUBJECT VERB NOUN works well, or in other words WHO DOES WHAT. Dont try to be too clever especially on hard news scripts. Clients who have limited English may not understand a play on words, pun or double entendre We do not put full stops at the end of our headlines. You do not need full names for major world figures, e. Putin, Trump. Use titles for those who are less well known, e. U. N. security chief criticises Israeli army report. Do not use times or dates unless crucial to the story. Try to avoid clichs and weak verbs such as to be, i. Be wary of using humour in straight news stories. Do not use the word amvid in headlines. Many people do not know exactly what it refers to, and it means different things in different countries. Instead we should be clear about what the video actually is, i. CCTV video, security video, police video, etc. Examples of good headlines Thousands protest Rajoy investiture. Car blast kills four in Benghazi officials. Drone footage shows Italy quake damage. Zombie flashmob dances in Berlin. Twitter to shut down Vine. The content of soundbites is often helpful when trying to decide on a headline. There are several ways to cast a bite led headline, grammatically. Trump says winning the presidency would be Brexit times ten. Philippines Duterte says God warned him off swearing. U. N. chief deeply troubled by North Korea missile launches. One summit wont fix Europes critical situation Merkel. Erdogan Second Turk. Stream stage depends on European market. Double check that there are no spelling mistakes including names of people and places or typos before moving on. The headline is the first thing many of the clients see on Media Express, so you must be sure you have it right. If you have any doubts, ask a fellow producer or the Sub. INTROLeave the INTRO field blank in the template. One exception VIRAL video, please write your intro here and not in the script box, see how to write an intro under the INTROS section below. TXDATEThis is the date the story is being transmitted, i. It is added automatically by i. NEWS and has the format 0. No action is required. DURATION. Must be written like this 2 0. Use a colon between the minutes and seconds and time the story without the slate. The slate is five seconds long. So if your total duration with the slate is 3 3.