THE GAME OF TELEVISION NEWS

You are a reporter on a local news team, competing against the other reporters, and the clock, to turn a real news

event into the best news story.

NO IMPROVISATION OR TRIVIA KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED

As a reporter, you'll have limited time to collect story parts, including quotes, sources, tag lines, and sign-offs. You’ll combine these pieces with your news event to build your story. 


The story you create can be simple...


Or more complex...

Think of Action News as rhetorical Tetris; or an anthropomorphic set of refrigerator magnet poetry after it went to college and got a journalism degree.

YOU'RE ON THE AIR!

Family and School Friendly

The humor in Action News arises from the bombastic, wacky stories and situations you'll create around the most important events from the 1960s to today. The base game has no unseemly language to worry about. 

Free Companion App

Warm up your best Ron Burgundy or Veronica Corningstone impression and download the free Action News Timer mobile app. The app keeps track of time and plays television news introduction music; adding thematic flair to your game night. 

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Game by John Teasdale

and Justin Robert Young


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