- Channel 4 News
- BBC News at Six
- coverage of the General Election across different news programmes
- independent case studies (BBC3 60 Second News and Newsround)
- News Values blog taskhttp://mamduhmediablog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/1-whose-perspective-have-sky-news-used.html
- TV News audience - creating a running order
- TV News representation - analysing Sky News coverage of the 2011 riots
Thursday 21 May 2015
Index
Thursday 14 May 2015
1) Whose perspective have Sky News used to present the story? (Clue: it’s in the opening line)
Sky news has mainly chosen the police perspective to present the story. a example of this is when the focus on the 8 hospital
2) How are the police represented in this coverage?
3) How are young people represented in this coverage?
4) What images and videos are selected by Sky News to accompany the story?
5) What choice of words is used to present this news event?
6) What aspect of the story is chosen as the most important detail and included at the very beginning of the report?
7) How is narrative used to engage the audience with this news story?
8) How can we apply Todorov’s equilibrium theory to this coverage?
9) What examples of Propp’s character types can we find in this coverage? Are there heroes and villains?
Sky news has mainly chosen the police perspective to present the story. a example of this is when the focus on the 8 hospital
2) How are the police represented in this coverage?
3) How are young people represented in this coverage?
4) What images and videos are selected by Sky News to accompany the story?
5) What choice of words is used to present this news event?
6) What aspect of the story is chosen as the most important detail and included at the very beginning of the report?
7) How is narrative used to engage the audience with this news story?
8) How can we apply Todorov’s equilibrium theory to this coverage?
9) What examples of Propp’s character types can we find in this coverage? Are there heroes and villains?
10) How might citizen journalism have been used to provide a different angle on this story?
Thursday 7 May 2015
News values: notes
In 1965, media researchers Galtung & Ruge analysed news stories to find out what factors placed them at the top of the news agenda.
They came up with the following list of news values - a kind of scoring system to work out what might become news. A story which scores highly on each value is likely to be at the top of a TV news bulletin. Some of the news values they suggested include:
In 1965, media researchers Galtung & Ruge analysed news stories to find out what factors placed them at the top of the news agenda.
They came up with the following list of news values - a kind of scoring system to work out what might become news. A story which scores highly on each value is likely to be at the top of a TV news bulletin. Some of the news values they suggested include:
Negativity
The Nepal earthquake is an excellent example of negative news.
Closeness to home
Immediacy
How recently did it happen? TV news is very competitive about breaking news – although it is now beaten by social media.
Simplicity
Simple stories are preferred by TV news. Palestine is complicated, a plane crash is easy to follow.
Uniqueness
‘Dog bites man’ is not news. ‘Man bites dog’ is. Unusual stories make it into the news – especially if there is good video to go with it.
Elite nations or people
Stories that focus on important countries or people are likely to make the news. Obama and USA = news, Outer Mongolia not so much.
Immediacy
How recently did it happen? TV news is very competitive about breaking news – although it is now beaten by social media.
Simplicity
Simple stories are preferred by TV news. Palestine is complicated, a plane crash is easy to follow.
Uniqueness
‘Dog bites man’ is not news. ‘Man bites dog’ is. Unusual stories make it into the news – especially if there is good video to go with it.
Elite nations or people
Stories that focus on important countries or people are likely to make the news. Obama and USA = news, Outer Mongolia not so much.
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