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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 541: Reporting the News.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 541. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in the beautiful City of Los Angeles, California.

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This episode is called “Reporting the News.” It’s going to talk about some common vocabulary when dealing with the newspaper. We thought we would do something about newspapers before they all disappear. Let’s get started.

I have always wanted to be a news reporter. When I was about 10 years old, I would write my own news stories and publish them in my own newspaper. In reality, the newspaper was just a piece of paper on which I’d written my stories and drew my pictures, but it was my first taste of the power of the press.

When I got to college, I worked on the university newspaper and started out as a copy editor, editing stories and writing headlines. Then, I began