[Vocabulary] News reporter

[alikhalili71]

Hi there,
Please give me a verb which I can use with the word "report". For example, I'm watching TV and news reporter on TV. Can I say "he/she is doing the news report"?
Is it correct to use the article "the" before "news" in the above example?

 

[MikeNewYork]

Yes, you can use your sentence, and the article is needed there.

It is also common to hear "He is doing the weather report."

 

[Roman55]

I am not a teacher.

In BrE we often use 'newsreader' and 'the weather man', or should that now be the weather person?

 

[MikeNewYork]

Meteorologist would be better.

 

[charliedeut]

Meteorologist would be better.

That would depend on whether the face holds a degree to call them that!

 

[Roman55]

I am not a teacher.

In France, where I live, it is very common for the person presenting the weather forcast to use that as a means to build a television career.

They then go on to host a game show here, some light entertainment there, and so on. Knowing anything about meteorology is really quite unnecessary. That is left to Météo France.

 

[SoothingDave]

Once upon a time in America, they had "weather girls" on TV. They simply repeated their lines, but they were nice to look at. Nowadays, we typically have a real meteorologist on the TV news and use empty headed teleprompter readers as politicians.

 

[riquecohen]

IMO, it would be more natural to use "report" as the verb. "He is reporting the news."

 

[Barb_D]

Even our little station in Portland, Maine, had a PhD meteorologist.

 

[charliedeut]

and use empty headed teleprompter readers as politicians.

*Unrelated* Funny how you need to prove, for instance, language knowledge to become a waiter at a restaurant (in Spain, in most places), but not if you want to run for President/mayor/congressman (in Spain, so far).