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Hi Chhaya Singh, Steps to Becoming a TV Reporter
Step 1: Earn a Bachelor's Degree
Gain Experience During College. Students who aspire to become TV reporters can begin gaining experience while earning their degree. Opportunities for hands-on experience in news writing and broadcasting are available through campus organizations including radio or television broadcast groups, school newspapers, and broadcasting clubs. Step 2: Gain Employment
Reporters may investigate leads and research information for a story, as well as report their findings on-air. TV reporters often report on-site, usually during a live broadcast. With proven experience, TV reporters from smaller stations often become strong candidates for reporting jobs at larger news stations, typically in bigger cities. Some reporters eventually become TV news anchors, while others become correspondents in specific areas of news coverage. Step 3: Join a Professional organisation
The networking and professional opportunities combined with work experience may provide reporters skills for career advancement. Career Requirements:
Degree LevelBachelor's degree Fields of Journalism, communications, English, political Science, or related field
Experience: Internships or field experience recommended
Key Skills :Strong communication and interpersonal skills; objectivity and determination; familiarity with video and digital cameras and mobile broadcasting equipment; ability to use social media applications and database programs such as Microsoft Access and File Maker Pro
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Anchoring, wow, its a great area to make a career, but you need to have patience for getting success so early in this field. Firstly, you have to good command on language Hindi and English both. Just do stage shows, events which can boost up your confidence and make you comfortable with audience. But dear, its really to hard come in front of camera as anchor, because before coming, you have to great knowledge of subject for which you are going for anchoring. Because just try to read out the history or media experience of famous anchor of news channel. Then you will come to know about the challenges for anchoring and reality of the media industry. But seriously its a great option as career. Because anchoring is not limited to only news channels.

If you want to know about exactly the scope or career in mass communication or journalism, then you can visit the career page on website www.masscommunicator.in. And, now your question is for print and TV journalism or acting and anchoring, then you already know in all over India, there are more than 1 Lacs publications of all language, period based in the era of increasing number of news channels. But, still this print media industry is going smooth as usual. It shows that there are a number of opportunities in print journalism as well as TV Journalism. If you talk about acting and anchoring, then dear first try to find out yourself. Either you are good in acting or anchoring, because both field are really good, but success rate or period is really slow. You have to give many of years with passionate will power for both field then only you can grab opportunities in acting and anchoring.