A man accused of plowing a truck into pedestrians during a miles-long chase in New York City is now in custody. ABC News’ Andrew Dymburt reports.
Current News (or breaking news) is a form of television news reporting that interrupts regularly scheduled programming to report on an important or high-profile current issue. It is sometimes also referred to as news flash or special report.
Breaking news coverage typically starts with a graphic or a countdown that announces a break from the network’s normal feed and then introduces the story at hand. This may be followed by an anchor who welcomes the audience to a live broadcast or cuts to a video or image of a reporter following the event.
A breaking news report might last for a few minutes or extend for hours, days, or weeks at a time. For longer-lasting news events, the coverage might incorporate analysis from analysts in-studio, via phone, satellite, or internet (B-GAN), or it may be passed to reporters on site to provide further details.
During the 1990s, newscasts were often interrupted for weather events such as tornadoes, blizzards, and hurricanes. These interruptions were usually made for severe or imminent dangers, while for less significant threats such as lightning, stations were more likely to use cut-ins and alert crawls during regular programming if they had a sufficient amount of information about the threat.
Local television station coverage of breaking news stories is generally much more frequent and intensive than the coverage on 24-hour news channels; in addition, most networks will allow a local television channel to take over for their own newscast if necessary. This may be done based on the magnitude of the event, with the local station’s talent or master control team indicating to the network that they will pause the broadcast and begin their own locally produced newscast in response.
