Writing News for Broadcast
The standard textbook on writing for the ear: cadence, sentence length, and reading a script aloud before it airs.
The standard textbook on writing for the ear rather than the eye. Bliss and Hoyt cover the discipline broadcast writing demands: short sentences, cadence, reading the script aloud and listening only to its rhythm. It has trained several generations of radio and television journalists.
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Guy Raz
And then something that print journalists wouldn’t think about is the rhythm of what you say. The way a long sentence sounds next to a short sentence, the cadence. When I write a script I really think about that rule. It essentially says to you, once you’ve written down what you want to say, read it out loud and don’t even pay attention to the meaning of the words. Just listen for the rhythm of the way they sound.
Interview · March 2011
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