Fiona Bruce: behind the scenes on the Six O'Clock News

The buzz phrase in news presenting is "authority with warmth", says Fiona Bruce, adding hastily, "whether or not I have that, I've no idea".

Bruce was a reporter on Panorama until she needed some summer work and did early morning regional news-reading shifts to cover for people on holiday. That led to a job in London and, eventually, presenting BBC1's flagship Six and Ten O'Clock News programmes.

She says there's not much chance to learn to read the news, but "by and large ... you can either do it straightaway or you can't".

But it's not just an on-camera job. Bruce writes, or rewrites, the scripts she reads, and says "part of my job is having a journalistic and editorial influence on what we do - and that's what I enjoy about it".

We followed Fiona Bruce and her programme editor Camilla Mankabady and studio director Chris Partridge on a busy day on the Six O'Clock News - a day Partridge described as soon as they were safely off air as "crazy".

You can read a fuller transcript of Fiona Bruce's interview here.

Inside BBC Journalism

This latest film is part of the Inside BBC Journalism series, each offering a behind-the-scenes glimpse of what BBC journalists do, and how they feel about their work.

Other films in the series include:

News graphics producer Rob Shergold

Entertainment news presenter Tasmin Lucia Khan

Television news output producer James Cann

Online sports reporter Damian Derrick

Radio breakfast show producer Sophie Woodcock