News writing Vs. broadcast writing

My major is Broadcast journalism but in high school I was opinion column editor for my school newspaper. Writing stories for our school newspaper was fun to me. My teacher tried to stress the importance of using styles book but he probably let us slide too many times when we didn't. Now that I am in college the teachings of my high school teacher are gone. In media writing, it is imperative that I learn the correct way and all the different ways to media writing.  

Newspaper writing and broadcast writing are similar in a few technical ways but they are drastically different in other ways. For an example, broadcasting has no inverted pyramid like Newspaper writing. Broadcasting is all about what's happening right now and the tense is always present.  Newspaper writing is writing in past or future tense only. Broadcast writing is done in a script format that goes through a teleprompter for the anchor. 

The one column script format for radio and two column script format for TV. The script is written in a specific way in order for an anchor or radio host to understand exactly what to say and what not to say. For an example for TV the script is in all capital letters and direct quotes are in a normal font in order for the anchor to know when to stop talking. 

In TV the right hand of the column is for the anchor to read and the left hand is for the production staff to read.  Broadcast you spell everything out all the way down to the "dot com " after website.  In newspaper writing all these things do not have to be accounted for but rules like the rules for writing numbers or dates, can be a pain to remember because it isn't your normal MLA format. It's Associated Press.

  Broadcasting and newspaper writing have way more rules than I've named but my favorite way to write is Broadcast. I think it's the spell everything out rule that pushes me to like broadcast. When you have words that are not pronounced the way they are spelled, as a writer you have to spell it exactly how it sounds. This way it is an almost guarantee that the anchor will pronounce the words correctly.