The Art and Impact of TV News Anchoring
25-Sep-2025
AUTHOR - New Delhi YMCA
News reporting and anchoring is a focused skill that is much in-demand in the world of Broadcasting. Anchors are more than just presenters—they are storytellers, performers, and connectors who hold the audience’s attention across a wide variety of programs. From award nights, talk shows, and comedy entertainment to sports, debates, music and dance shows, and even crime reports—anchors bring life to every format, making every broadcast memorable.
When it comes to TV news anchoring, the role becomes even more crucial. A news anchor must deliver information with clarity, objectivity, and precision while managing the complexities of a live newsroom. The challenge lies in catering to a diverse audience, maintaining credibility, and speaking with authority—all while keeping viewers engaged.
As TV news anchors they have to coordinate news broadcasts, do news reading and use their public speaking skills to accurately and concisely deliver the news to a viewing audience.
Anchors keep the audience engaged with the aim to elicit maximum response. For making a career in TV Anchoring, one needs to be spontaneous & witty minded, have a great knowledge of current affairs, know the art of anchoring, unique presentation style & camera friendly face. With the increasing popularity of the broadcast journalism and media, the task of news reading, anchoring, TV reporting and presenting a program has become highly challenging. We at New Delhi YMCA IMSIT teach and train our students to cover newsworthy events as media professionals. We also provide them practical exposure in live reporting during their course. Students learn the art of facing the camera, voice modulation, news reporting, presentation skills, newsroom ethics, being abreast of current affairs, news reporting and various other technical aspects related to the field. The specially designed curriculum of the course enables the students to recognize newsworthy stories and to report the same with ease and confidence. Faculties for the course are successful professionals with huge experience in both industry and academia. They are committed to share their skills to encourage new talent. Our training approach is practical, result-oriented, and highly interactive. With access to real-world reporting situations and expert feedback, our students becomes the professionals who are confident, passionate and deeply informed anchors, correspondents, and media professionals in the fast-paced broadcasting industry.
Anchoring is an art, and at IMSIT, we empower our students not just to master it, but to redefine it.