We'll have more to say about daily announcements in the next lesson. Suffice to say broadcast style favors active voice like no other style of writing. The boy always kicks the ball. The ball is seldom, if ever, kicked by the boy. You don't see extra editions much any more.
Folks get their news of fast-breaking events on radio or television.
Newspapers still give us details we don't have time for on radio, but the print media can't compete with broadcast's sense of immediacy. We writers remind listeners of this advantage with our frequent use of present tense. In the soft lede, a general description of the individual comes before the person's name. After you have the listeners' attention, you tell them who he was. On the radio the source's name comes before his information in active voice.