What is the difference between audio and radio?

Answer 1

Practical Differences

Style & Structure

There are numerous stylistic and structural differences between broadcast and print journalism. As it is beyond the scope of this paper to discuss them all, I will refer to just three: editorial influence, structure, and pace.

Print journalism edits more than broadcast. Newspapers edit for clarity, fairness, and accuracy (Colgan, 2004). They also edit to ensure individual house style. In broadcast journalism however, exactly what you write is often exactly what airs, with little or no editing. The extensive editing process in print journalism allows more time for eloquence and prose. Conversely, the relative lack of editing in broadcast journalism warrants short, sharp, succinct language of a more conversational tone (Higgins, 2004).

Broadcast and print journalism also differ in structure. Print news stories use an inverted pyramid structure with the most important items (the facts of the story) reported in the first paragraph. Remaining facts are then presented in descending order of importance. Broadcast news stories on the other hand are broader (no pun intended). Important facts are still reported in the first paragraph, but broadcast news stories end decisively and do not trail off as do print news stories (Higgins, 2004).

Lastly, broadcast and print news stories differ in length and pace. The average radio news story is just 30 seconds long. The average television news story is one minute and 30 seconds long. Read at a pace of 180 words per minute these lengths equate to 90 and 270 words respectively for radio and television news stories. The average print new piece can vary greatly in length, but has been described as "12 snappy pars" (Ricketson, 2004). Ultimately, the newspaper journalist has little control over the pace at which the story is read; it is the reader who dictates the pace.

Answer 2

"audio" is latin word for "sound", radio is a device.