The news reader is a female called Sam Naz, she is in her late twenties presumably. She is wearing a T shirt/ dress maybe and she looks smart and presentable. Her role is to present the news stories of that day in a serious and unbiased way. The role of a news reader/ reporter requires you to rite your own scripts, practice timings, look presentable, talk clearly, multitask whilst on live TV E.G. read the news, listen to lots of people talking into your ear and cope under high pressure. Important skills for a news reader would be good organizational skills, a good use of language, the ability to dress smartly and being able to multitask. This is more relaxed and informal than the regular news on TV and there is only one news presenter as supposed to several covering different aspects of the news.
News ordering is where you arrange the news stories in an order, this is usually in order of importance so breaking new's will come first and a story about a cat will come last, important news is generally considered to be about politics, royalty, murder and terror. these stories always come before others whether is worldwide news, national or regional. The term given to the list of stories that are likely to appear in the news is called a prospects list, this can and does usually change as the day goes on because some stories may not happen on that day or thay may be not concidered important enough on busy news days. Stories about terror, murder, politics and royalty will always come before any others as these are most important to us both nationally and worldwide. The term given to the list of news stories that are likely to appear in the news is called a prospects list, this can and usually does change as the day goes on as some stories may not happen or may be considered not as important as other stories on busy news days and they can of course be replaced by breaking news.
Stories about terror, murder, politics and royalty come
first. Other stories appear that are of less importance at the end of the news
such as about an animal or something similar. It is very important to be able
to think and act quickly in the news industry, news readers are constantly
being talked to and being told what to do whilst doing their job on live TV,
reporters and camera men also need these qualities as they have to suddenly
rush to a location to get a breaking story.
The term slow news day is when there are not many or no important
stories happening on that day. The final story in the news is called the ‘and
finally’ story, this is usually something cute and uplifting after the doom and
gloom of the stories beforehand it is to make the overall mood better and leave
on a good note. The term news values are
about the specific types of stories and ways that the news is presented. Here
are some examples of Galtung and Ruges news values…
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Negativity: these are bad stories about natural
disasters, death, damage, political upheaval and terror, one example of one of
these stories would be a story about the recant terror attacks in Brussels.
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Closeness to home/proximity: These are stories
that have happened in the local area such as a car crash.
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Recency: This is breaking news again about
something like the Brussels terror attacks.
·
Currency: this is an update on a story from a
while ago such as the Adam Johnson story.
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Continuity: these are events that have been in
the news every day such as war.
·
Uniqueness: these are stories you don’t expect
to hear such as tree stuck up cat as supposed to cat stuck up tree.
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Simplicity: east to explain stories like cat
stuck up a tree.
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Personality: these stories are usually about one
person such as Kate Middleton going shopping.
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Expectedness: a story that is expected to be the
top news story such as terror or war.
·
Elite nations or people: any story that covers a
powerful nation or person for example about Barack Obama.
·
Exclusivity: a story that the news breaks that
no other news channel or paper has covered.
·
Size: this refers to how important the story is
such as war and terror as supposed to a cat story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pNPhxIpuoo
This news story is about the true cost of the war in Syria,
how it happened and what have the consequences been so far. The story involves everyone in Syria,
specifically a doctor they interview. The doctor interviewed is portrayed as a
hero for all of the lives he saved when in Syria before escaping to
Germany. The news story makes you feel
sorry for the civilians that have been injured and killed in the crossfire. The
narration really helped follow the story, as it was a history as supposed to an
interview or report, it showed old footage so the narration helped inform you
of what was happening.
- Bias through selection: an editor is in charge of what aspects of a story are covered, sometimes certain important parts of a story are not included because it may give readers and viewers different opinions on the story. Looking at the same news story's from different organisations you can notice how this is done.
- Bias through placement: this is when news story's that will make more money are put on the front page or are the main story as supposed to potentially more important story's that do not attract the eye.
- Bias by headline: news headlines are the part that everyone reads so if they can think of a good headline it will attract you even if it is bias and untrue.
- Bias by photos, captions and camera angles: pictures taken of important people and those in the news can make people look bad or make them look good, the photos chosen are often of the editors opinion and can be bias. for example in theese photos Nigel Farrage is portrayed as Hitler and David Cameron looks smart and important.
- Bias through use of names and titles: names and titles can be altered to make somebody look good or bad.
- Bias through use of language: using certain words in a story can portray it differently, news readers use negative and positive words and you can tell there opinion through tone.
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