TV News index
1) TV News case study 1: Channel 4 News
2) TV News case study 2: BBC News at Six
3) TV News case study 3: coverage of the General Election across different news programmes
4) TV News case study 4: independent case studies (BBC3 60 Second News and Newsround)
5) News Values blog task
6) TV News audience - creating a running order
7) TV News representation - analysing Sky News coverage of the 2011 riots
Thursday 21 May 2015
Wednesday 6 May 2015
Case study 3: news stories covering start of General Election campaign 2015
Case Study
Testing what you've learned...
1) What is the angle of a news story? There can be many different angles to a news story such as British angle by the BBC News.
2) What is the difference between tabloid and broadsheet news coverage? A tabloid newspaper is less serious and the stories are usually revolved around sports and celebrities. A broadsheet news is more serious and more about politics.
3) What would be an example of a tabloid-style TV news programme? An example is the female football that was spoken about.
4) What would be an example of a broadsheet-style TV news programme? The Scottish international election.
5) What is the difference between international, national, regional and local news coverage
International is world wide, national is wide in the UK, regional is places such as London, Yorkshire and Scotland. Local news is to do with incidents that occur in the area.
1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell? This would be national news.
Testing what you've learned...
1) What is the angle of a news story? There can be many different angles to a news story such as British angle by the BBC News.
2) What is the difference between tabloid and broadsheet news coverage? A tabloid newspaper is less serious and the stories are usually revolved around sports and celebrities. A broadsheet news is more serious and more about politics.
3) What would be an example of a tabloid-style TV news programme? An example is the female football that was spoken about.
4) What would be an example of a broadsheet-style TV news programme? The Scottish international election.
5) What is the difference between international, national, regional and local news coverage
International is world wide, national is wide in the UK, regional is places such as London, Yorkshire and Scotland. Local news is to do with incidents that occur in the area.
1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell? This would be national news.
2) What angle does the report take on the story? The story takes a UK angle (David Cameron or Ed Miliband)
3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage? This is more broadcast style.
4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why? The audience would be more of the 18-35 age range because political stories wouldn't interest the younger ages due to the fact they don't feel like the are involved in the part of the news and when voting takes place they wouldn't be associated with it.
Sky News election story not available online - use your notes
1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell? National because it's an election in one country.
2) What angle does the report take on the story? Broadsheet-style angle.
3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage? It's broadsheet-style angle because is involves serious information and stories to do with politics.
4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why? Those who are able to vote would be most likely to watch this type of TV News programme or even if they are interested in news to do with politics so usually over 18.
1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell? National because it's an election in one country.
2) What angle does the report take on the story? Broadsheet-style angle.
3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage? It's broadsheet-style angle because is involves serious information and stories to do with politics.
4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why? Those who are able to vote would be most likely to watch this type of TV News programme or even if they are interested in news to do with politics so usually over 18.
STV coverage of the election story
1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell? This is a regional news story because it is more from the perspective of the people of Scotland and what they want.
2) What angle does the report take on the story? The report takes on the story from a regional angle.
3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage? This is more tabloid style coverage because it is informal whilst presenting the story and the news mainly consists of interviews with the Scottish party.
4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why? I would expect an older audience in the age range of 16 to 40+ to watch this news programme because it is a traditional news story based on voting and elections which appeals to an older audience and what they want their country to be like.
Channel 4 News coverage of the election story.
1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell? National and regional. I can tell because is an election again.
2) What angle does the report take on the story? Political angle
3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage? This is more of both tabloid and broadsheet.
4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why? I think even though they can't vote the ages would be young such as 15-35 due to presentation of channel 4 itself as a news programme.
2) What angle does the report take on the story? The report takes on the story from a regional angle.
3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage? This is more tabloid style coverage because it is informal whilst presenting the story and the news mainly consists of interviews with the Scottish party.
4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why? I would expect an older audience in the age range of 16 to 40+ to watch this news programme because it is a traditional news story based on voting and elections which appeals to an older audience and what they want their country to be like.
Channel 4 News coverage of the election story.
1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell? National and regional. I can tell because is an election again.
2) What angle does the report take on the story? Political angle
3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage? This is more of both tabloid and broadsheet.
4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why? I think even though they can't vote the ages would be young such as 15-35 due to presentation of channel 4 itself as a news programme.
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