Anchor Responsibilities

Starting at 1:00 p.m. on show day, you will be responsible for the following:

  • Assist the executive producer in organizing the newscast.
  • Suggest ideas for possible readers to include in the newscast.
  • Help write Teases, Hello, Bye and any assigned Readers and/or CNN news
    copy
  • Proofread all copy for spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors.
  • Using the Rundown Sheet, make sure that all of your scripts have been
    printed/copied three times.
  • Sort the three stack of scripts and make sure three Rundown Sheets have been printed.

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