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NHK's INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION NEWS

My internship was performed at the US-based International Political and Social Section broadcast offices of NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corporation, the Japanese national public television broadcast network. A major network, NHK is perhaps more comparable to Britain's BBC than the American PBS. My duties there were to assist with research analysis for the Chief Correspondent Producer, who was my immediate supervisor. In this position I assisted the Chief Correspondent Producer and his staff with both statistical and textual research. Major tasks included transcription and translation of press conferences and interviews, as well as research and organizational data analysis. The length of the internship was 200 hours.

The first and overwhelming lesson I learned in this internship is that speed is of the essence in television news. The familiar image of a television newsroom, as presented in movies and TV entertainment shows, is of a bustle of activity, with people working under constant deadline pressure. If anything, this is an understatement of the reality! In the NHK news operation there was never a second to be lost. The atmosphere of the news operation is one of controlled chaos. This is as much true when working on a background or analysis piece as for breaking news, because the clock is always running, and items have to be fit into a slot when it is available. At the same time, accuracy is essential, since an error will go out to millions of viewers.

As a result, time management is essential. This is true at both the individual and organizational level. I learned to read and write more rapidly than I thought was possible, skimming documents for key items, and writing as I read. On the organizational level, the key to successful operation is organizing every worker's task for maximum efficiency.

Another lesson is the importance of a broad knowledge base in broadcast news. Particularly in international news...

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