Do TV news-readers ever read news about themselves? [closed]

(Sort of) recently, on the Irish RTE news, an item was read about a man who was being sentenced for stalking/harassing news-reader Sharon Ní Bheoláin.

However Sharon herself wasn't presenting the news that day, and the actual news-reader was free to say, "[name], who was convicted of stalking RTE news-reader Sharon Ní Bheoláin, was sentenced today..." and it got me thinking how funny it would be if she were the one reading that particular item or even at the desk while it was being read ("... who was convicted of stalking me was sentenced today...") and that they must have deliberately given her the day off to avoid this situation.

So my question is, is it standard procedure to give a news-reader the day off if there is an item about themselves? Has it happened on a major (national-level) news broadcast that a normally impartial news-reader has had to tell news about themselves?

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Best Answer

Usually not.

Most news programmes will aim to be impartial, so reading a story about yourself cuts across that entirely.

Sometimes the BBC reports on themselves (as a corporation), but they manage to do that in the same professional manner as they would do for anything else.

But most news programmes have a team of presenters so that these personal conflicts shouldn't play out in the way you describe.

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Have you ever wondered how news anchors and television reporters deliver information seamlessly on camera? It's all thanks to teleprompters. These display devices enable a presenter to read from a prepared script or speech while maintaining eye contact with the camera at all times.

What is the thing called that newscasters read off of?

A news reader (news anchor in the U.S.) looks into a camera. The camera has a screen that faces the news reader.

Do CNN anchors read teleprompters?

Each studio camera at CNN is equipped with a TelePrompTer. This is what the anchors read from when they are on the air. The TelePrompTer is also visible from a monitor recessed into the anchor desk, facing upward. The anchor's script will be cued up on these monitors.

What is it called when a TV news anchor reads a news story without any videos or sound bites?

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