Writing Rundown Summary
News Script Writing from A to Z
Broadcast Journalists are writers first. To succeed, you will need to have a good understanding of the basics. In The Writing Rundown, we start from the very beginning – breaking down the various script formats involved in television news from A to Z. Learn how to write concise, clear, compelling copy for a television newscast!
SNEAK PEEK INSIDE THIS e-BOOK:
“Before we get dive into the structure and mechanics of broadcast writing, let’s first examine the different formats involved in writing scripts for a newscast. We will review readers, VO’s and VO/SOT’s and examine how they appear in a newscast rundown. Finally, we will cover the basics of writing a complete story, or as it’s called in the industry, a “package”, from A to Z.
A READER:
Readers are the most basic format of script writing. A reader is a short script…”

