TV news reports and newspaper articles belong to the same media genre. Do they have common lexical patternings which characterize the reporting style? To answer this question we compared the features appearing at the end of each paragraph in TV news reports and newspaper articles. The analysis reveals that they have several common lexical patternings: (to/ni/koto ni) suru, (to/ni/koto ni) naru, to shiteiru, simesu and other forms of reporting verbs. The analysis also reveals that TV news reports have some special features: (koto ni) siteimasu, (to iu) kotodesu, wakarimasita. All of these lexical patternings and their uses can be incorporated in the Japanese language education.