What is a television report?

Extract from chapter one: (starting from second paragraph page 23)

Many people call any piece longer than a news item a report and this can cause confusion. If we could agree on our terminology both citizens (viewers) and professionals would benefit. In any case, the purpose of this book is not to define terminology but to provide some methodology to help us to do our work the best we can while at the same time enjoying still it as much as possible, in the end a reporter lives as many lives as reports he makes.

A written report is:

A journalistic genre based on the witness account of events and situations that explain events lived by people in relation to their context from a current perspective.

A television report is:

A journalistic genre based on the witness account of spontaneous actions that explains in images, words and sounds events lived by people and in relation to their context from a current perspective.

The big difference between the two definitions is that for the audiovisual text the reporter must be physically on the scene and looking for the actions that will provide the images on which to base his narrative.