Television newscasts often need to be written tightly and crisply in order to make them both easily readable by a reporter or newsanchor, and easily understood by those sitting around their dinner tables watching the newscast at home. Broadcast news stories are typically written using in the active voice for this purpose. Stories on television have the advantage of being able to be periodically updated throughout a day, versus a newspaper that only prints its news once daily.
Print news stories, however, can go into greater depth than a television story can. The tone of print stories tends to be more passive, which does make the writing less tight and concise. Because print stories are published only once a day, there is time for newswriters to find out all of the details about what exactly occurred before publishing time.
Another advantage of television newscasts is the ability to include sound bytes and visual images of whatever the story may be about. Such visuals will stimulate the audience's senses and capture their attention, almost as if the viewer and reporter are having a conversation, and especially brings the story to life. Also because of its frequent updates, more people pay attention to television or even online journalism than printed news in their local papers.
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