News Reporters

 NEWSPAPER REPORTERS gather and analyze
facts about current events through interviews, investigations, or
observations and write stories describing the events, background, meaning,
and effects.  They are assigned breaking news developments such as
disasters, crime, and human interest.  They take notes and put it in their hand-held PC, or use a tape
recorder while covering a story.
Hand-held computers are convenient to many news reporters because instead of writing their reports to papers with the use of pen they will just
input it to their hand held computers.Handheld computers allow writing.
Some can recognize handwriting some of  the time, and this is a tremendous achievement given the handwriting
of news reporters. But the fastest and most reliable way to write is using a 
slightly modified alphabet without joining up the letters. This may not
be as fast as writing on paper, but it will be legible and  improve their writing on paper 
after using a handheld computer.

Reporters usually return to the office to write copy on a computer.  As
Reporters type their copy, it can appear simultaneously on their screen and
the editor's terminal screen, or the story can be sent to the editor after
it has been polished.  From the editor, it is transmitted to the composing
room computer which produces the story.  Sometimes, to meet deadlines,
reporters deliver their news story over the telephone or use portable
computers to enter the story which is then sent by modem directly to the
newspaper's computer system.

Although electronic technology has brought change to the newspaper office,
it has not diminished the need for reporters.  Automation has eliminated the
legendary clamor of the large news room in favor of a more high-tech
information producing operations.

Because computers have become smaller, easier to use and cheaper,
 it's no surprise that handheld versions now accompany many news reporters.
And yet, these portable devices have not become as common as bulkier desktop models.

Reporters work both indoors and outdoors, dealing with all kinds of people.
They may work for long periods on unproductive leads.  Editors have the
option of revising, shortening, or deleting their stories from the newspaper through their hand-held
computers.