Anchoring and Teleprompters 101

MSNBC Anchor Yasmin Vossoughian explains teleprompters, tips for how to give a natural read, and anchoring advice.

Ever wonder how anchors seem to never break eye contact? Teleprompters are just another tool in the anchoring toolbox. They help anchors maintain direct eye contact with viewers, drawing them into the show. Teleprompters have small screens that display the script, which is then reflected by a mirror that sits over the lens of the camera. The small screen shows the script but flipped, and when it is bounced off the mirror it is readable to the anchor.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:34 Anchoring 101
0:54 How a teleprompter works
2:03 Mastering your delivery

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[raterus]

This was top in my recommended, I'm not sure why a computer programmer needs to know how to use and communicate through a teleprompter, but yet here we are!

[MarcosIsABaritone]

It was helpful witnessing Vossoughian intersplicing conversational dialogue when she recognized her tempo was out-pacing the teleprompter monitor. Seasoned readers (as well as nervous ones) tend to read too quickly.

[miwhcyvybaksjd]

How randomly wonderful it is that this came to my feed. Really well done explaining that and showing us with good angles.

[akh]

It's such a real skill to read it and still make the audience feel like you are naturally talking to us. I would just read in monotone.

[abuanwp]

She is literally a master class in delivering news!

[Nileshpandey]

I am 29 and been watching news since my childhood days and when i attain teenage i used to think that how these anchors are able to memorise & remember so many things and they say it all in one go without any error or mistake while presenting the news in live sessions.
Then when grown up more and gradually i got to know that there is teleprompter in which anchors read the news and today when i was watching the one of the popular prime time news show "Vantage" By palki sharma surprisingly while watching the show i thought about the same thing thay how is she is able to present the news so efficiently so i searched about "How anchors read the news" and i got this video.
No i'd like to appreciate the anchor Yasmeen vassoughian and the team of NBCU for making such an excellent informative video to explain this anchoring concept. Thanks & greetings from india.
13/11/2024 Wednesday 10:28PM

[johnlaine]

That was very interesting and you sounded So natural. Thanks to you AND FELLOW anchors all being professionals and thoroughly practised in using teleprompters. Thank you.

[KreationAvenueTV]

Growing media conpany here! Im not sure if you are still momitoring this channel but the value that you are providing is out of this world. I've learned so much about building a media company directly from your videos. If your'e out there, thank you! I wish more people knew about these resources, i will mention them on my future videos!

[GDR]

This video basically convinced me to get a teleprompter... and it's worth every dollar spent. Thanks, NBCU, for changing my entire process.

[robert_paisola]

This is amazing…. We broadcast to almost a million people…. Thank you NBC! Rob

[b-sideplank]

As a print journalist planning to move to broadcast - or add video presentation to my text journalism skills - I find it extremely daunting. This video is extremely well done. Yasmin is a top class presenter no doubt.

[hi__hassan]

Not sure why, and how, this video was suggested to me but it was really good to get a glimpse of how things go behind our television screens.

[DJapan]

This was very interesting! I tried a teleprompter app once for my YouTube channel but it just constantly moved at the same speed. I had a hard time adjusting my speed to the text motion. I had no idea they could move automatically or have someone move them.

[jamesraymond]

Excellent. I had always wondered how they read while looking at the camera. The mirror is ingenious.

[Moshie]

I LOVE IT when teleprompters fail, there’s that split second when the anchor thinks ‘merde’ and then switches to paper 😂😂😂

[EdwardKilner]

Very helpful. Will be getting my first teleprompter in a month, so very timely to find this.

[VulcanOnWheels]

Thank you for showing us how this works.

[JosephByrne]

That was really useful and informative.

[HandheldAddict]

Ron Burgundy is all the teleprompter lesson I need

[OrbitalEdgeNews]

I noticed there was an led block in front of the anchor sitting on the table. Could this be an anti hard shadow diffuser that lights up the bottom-up of the facial features?