News Research
Watch at least 4 news broadcasts from at least 2 different channels (e.g., 2 from BBC and 2 from ITV). Please make a note of the channel and time you watched each broadcast.
BBC - first broadcast: around 9am Friday 1st May, second broadcast: around 6:30pm Friday 1st May
ITV - first broadcast: around 6pm Friday 1st May, second broadcast: around 6:30pm Friday 1st May
Who is presenting the broadcast? And did they link to anyone else?
The people presenting the broadcasts are broadcasters. For the broadcasts, the presenters are most likely local to the area for where the studio is located. They don't usually link to anyone else other than different presenters are used sometimes depending on the report they are discussing (example being if a story is presented within a different country then a certain or specific presenter is usually presenting that report).
What does the studio look like?
For the BBC studio (main), the overall studio has a background of other employees possibly working on the news, red and white is present which links to the colours of the news logo. For the BBC studio (local), it's slightly different to the main studio. They also like the main also show the same colour scheme which is made of red and white. They have a screen within the studio to use for either watching pre-recorded stories, interviews or to link with the weather report.
For the ITV studio (main), the overall studio like the BBC studio shares it's studio colour scheme with it's logo graphic which is blue and white, they also show screens within the studio in the background and is most likely slightly blurred. There is also a screen which is used to either interview someone or to present the weather. This is also the same studio layout for the ITV studio (local) but with the exception that the background seems to be a local picture and is also blurred slightly.
Is there a title sequence and what happens in it?
For both of the channels, each of their news broadcasts had title sequences. For the BBC news's title sequence, they use a graphic which shows the globe which also links to how they discuss the worldwide news. They also transition fade from the graphic to a view of the office stations within the news station.
Meanwhile for the ITV news's title, they use images which are UK related or story related (for example showing Big Ben as it's one of the UK's iconic buildings along with showing children, soldiers, doctors and then skies and roads to depict what is likely to be talked about within the broadcast/programme).
How many different stories were covered and what order did they appear in?
For the all broadcasts on both channels, each of them started with a quick run-down of the current and breaking news, this is most likely on what's coming up in their broadcast on which both of their title sequences play on until the presenter then starts talking about the more relevant/breaking news. For all of the broadcasts on all the channels, they both talked about Coronavirus pandemic and how it had either reached a peak or about discussions about any actions or updates from the Government to help keep the audience/the country up to date with related stuff such as vaccine progress, death toll and health and safety as a example, it's the most important piece of news for the public to know about compared to other stories within their schedule. They also show All broadcasts ended with the presenter closing off and mentioning about the next news programme to be on at 10pm.
How did the broadcast end? (was something added to the end that wasn’t the same as the news section?)
All broadcasts ended with the presenter closing off and mentioning about the next news programme to be on at 1pm or 10pm (as they usually do). They also both also switch to a weather report to give the audience an insight onto the weather within the next week. Both ended with a graphic of their logo and the year and company.
There’s loads going on at the moment, by there are 2 special celebrations taking place in the UK today. What are two reasons why the 23rd April 2020 is being talked about on social media and being highlighted on the news? Get a screenshot too!
On the 23rd of April, they had the Sport Relief and Children in Need event called the Big Night In, which was made up by both charities mainly aimed towards helping children in need especially during the time of the pandemic and the event is made up of celebrity appearances and comedy skits to help raise money and to also bring positivity to people especially during lockdown.
News values is how they determine how prominent a news story is on any media outlet. This is meant to explain the audience's interest to various stories.
What are the 12 categories/values? (In your own words, summarise what each value is / includes)
Negativity - Negativity is bad and negative stories which involves death, tragedy, violence, natural disasters, political or bankruptcy and is always above the 'positive' stories (examples of them being celebrations to royal weddings).
Proximity - Proximity is when stories are aimed towards audiences that are geographically close. News gatekeepers must consider on how meaningful a story will be to their audience.
Recency - Recency is based on how recent events are and how news (and newspapers) when breaking the news to their audience. This can also have a high value for 24 hour news broadcasts as of when a story becomes public from various sources, they can report the event on their broadcast as breaking news to their audience.
Currency - Opposite to Recency, Currency is when a story that has been within the public eye for some time are still valuable. An example of this is a crime story as it can run on the news for a few weeks even though maybe nothing is added to the case.
Continuity - Continuity is when a news story or an event has a continuous impact on the news to keep updated on what is happening and it also has high value for when the story breaks. The news then develops the narrative by addressing to the audience for them to 'tune in tomorrow'.
Uniqueness - Uniqueness is when a unique and bizarre event occurs and the news reports it as it has high news values due to the odd nature of the story and how it attracts people to it.
Simplicity - Simplicity is when a story is easy to explain and is obvious. They are then preferred over which are not simplistic.
Personality - Personality is when a story is centered around a particular person and is presented in a way it makes it interesting to people, loved by newspaper outlets and especially if it's centered around someone famous/a celebrity (an example being for when a celebrity or figure is doing some or announcing something to the public as it intrigues the public.)
Predictability - Predictability is when an event is questioned whether it matched the news's expectations or whether it audience matched expectations or if they expected on what happened to actually take place during a story or event.
People - Any story that covers a important nation has more new value compared to other nations that are less important, this can also be applied to people (example being on politics for whenever a someone within that type of work does something either positive or negative, it will most likely be reported on in various news outlets).
Exclusivity - Exclusivity is when either a news station or newspaper gets hold of a never-seen story and then break that the public, they are then the first organisation to present that which brings more value to the story.
Size - Size matters when it comes to a story within the news as the more larger the story is the more it affects people and the more profit and resources it involves along with its values. Also known as threshold.
This one may be a bit tricky, as a lot of the news is focused on one topic at the moment (but even that can be broken into hundreds of smaller types of stories – see below*) but find a recent news story (with print screen of an article / broadcast) to exemplify each of the 12 values. Try not to use the same story twice, but as I said, this may be challenging.
BBC - first broadcast: around 9am Friday 1st May, second broadcast: around 6:30pm Friday 1st May
ITV - first broadcast: around 6pm Friday 1st May, second broadcast: around 6:30pm Friday 1st May
Who is presenting the broadcast? And did they link to anyone else?
The people presenting the broadcasts are broadcasters. For the broadcasts, the presenters are most likely local to the area for where the studio is located. They don't usually link to anyone else other than different presenters are used sometimes depending on the report they are discussing (example being if a story is presented within a different country then a certain or specific presenter is usually presenting that report).
What does the studio look like?
For the BBC studio (main), the overall studio has a background of other employees possibly working on the news, red and white is present which links to the colours of the news logo. For the BBC studio (local), it's slightly different to the main studio. They also like the main also show the same colour scheme which is made of red and white. They have a screen within the studio to use for either watching pre-recorded stories, interviews or to link with the weather report.
For the ITV studio (main), the overall studio like the BBC studio shares it's studio colour scheme with it's logo graphic which is blue and white, they also show screens within the studio in the background and is most likely slightly blurred. There is also a screen which is used to either interview someone or to present the weather. This is also the same studio layout for the ITV studio (local) but with the exception that the background seems to be a local picture and is also blurred slightly.
Is there a title sequence and what happens in it?
For both of the channels, each of their news broadcasts had title sequences. For the BBC news's title sequence, they use a graphic which shows the globe which also links to how they discuss the worldwide news. They also transition fade from the graphic to a view of the office stations within the news station.
Meanwhile for the ITV news's title, they use images which are UK related or story related (for example showing Big Ben as it's one of the UK's iconic buildings along with showing children, soldiers, doctors and then skies and roads to depict what is likely to be talked about within the broadcast/programme).
How many different stories were covered and what order did they appear in?
For the all broadcasts on both channels, each of them started with a quick run-down of the current and breaking news, this is most likely on what's coming up in their broadcast on which both of their title sequences play on until the presenter then starts talking about the more relevant/breaking news. For all of the broadcasts on all the channels, they both talked about Coronavirus pandemic and how it had either reached a peak or about discussions about any actions or updates from the Government to help keep the audience/the country up to date with related stuff such as vaccine progress, death toll and health and safety as a example, it's the most important piece of news for the public to know about compared to other stories within their schedule. They also show All broadcasts ended with the presenter closing off and mentioning about the next news programme to be on at 10pm.
How did the broadcast end? (was something added to the end that wasn’t the same as the news section?)
All broadcasts ended with the presenter closing off and mentioning about the next news programme to be on at 1pm or 10pm (as they usually do). They also both also switch to a weather report to give the audience an insight onto the weather within the next week. Both ended with a graphic of their logo and the year and company.
There’s loads going on at the moment, by there are 2 special celebrations taking place in the UK today. What are two reasons why the 23rd April 2020 is being talked about on social media and being highlighted on the news? Get a screenshot too!
On the 23rd of April, they had the Sport Relief and Children in Need event called the Big Night In, which was made up by both charities mainly aimed towards helping children in need especially during the time of the pandemic and the event is made up of celebrity appearances and comedy skits to help raise money and to also bring positivity to people especially during lockdown.
Task - Galtung and Ruge were media researchers and in 1965, they coined the term ‘news values’. What I would like you to do is read the content of this link (http://mediaknowall.com/gcse/news/news.php?pageID=values) and answer the following question:
What is meant by the term news values?
News values is how they determine how prominent a news story is on any media outlet. This is meant to explain the audience's interest to various stories.
What are the 12 categories/values? (In your own words, summarise what each value is / includes)
Negativity - Negativity is bad and negative stories which involves death, tragedy, violence, natural disasters, political or bankruptcy and is always above the 'positive' stories (examples of them being celebrations to royal weddings).
Proximity - Proximity is when stories are aimed towards audiences that are geographically close. News gatekeepers must consider on how meaningful a story will be to their audience.
Recency - Recency is based on how recent events are and how news (and newspapers) when breaking the news to their audience. This can also have a high value for 24 hour news broadcasts as of when a story becomes public from various sources, they can report the event on their broadcast as breaking news to their audience.
Currency - Opposite to Recency, Currency is when a story that has been within the public eye for some time are still valuable. An example of this is a crime story as it can run on the news for a few weeks even though maybe nothing is added to the case.
Continuity - Continuity is when a news story or an event has a continuous impact on the news to keep updated on what is happening and it also has high value for when the story breaks. The news then develops the narrative by addressing to the audience for them to 'tune in tomorrow'.
Uniqueness - Uniqueness is when a unique and bizarre event occurs and the news reports it as it has high news values due to the odd nature of the story and how it attracts people to it.
Simplicity - Simplicity is when a story is easy to explain and is obvious. They are then preferred over which are not simplistic.
Personality - Personality is when a story is centered around a particular person and is presented in a way it makes it interesting to people, loved by newspaper outlets and especially if it's centered around someone famous/a celebrity (an example being for when a celebrity or figure is doing some or announcing something to the public as it intrigues the public.)
Predictability - Predictability is when an event is questioned whether it matched the news's expectations or whether it audience matched expectations or if they expected on what happened to actually take place during a story or event.
People - Any story that covers a important nation has more new value compared to other nations that are less important, this can also be applied to people (example being on politics for whenever a someone within that type of work does something either positive or negative, it will most likely be reported on in various news outlets).
Exclusivity - Exclusivity is when either a news station or newspaper gets hold of a never-seen story and then break that the public, they are then the first organisation to present that which brings more value to the story.
Size - Size matters when it comes to a story within the news as the more larger the story is the more it affects people and the more profit and resources it involves along with its values. Also known as threshold.
This one may be a bit tricky, as a lot of the news is focused on one topic at the moment (but even that can be broken into hundreds of smaller types of stories – see below*) but find a recent news story (with print screen of an article / broadcast) to exemplify each of the 12 values. Try not to use the same story twice, but as I said, this may be challenging.
On how the article on reopening McDonald's 15 restaurants for delivery after closure due to lockdown restrictions and staff safety relates and go by the 12 values of news is that the Negativity within the article, talks about the coronavirus lockdown. Proximity is for specifically the UK as it does mention about the UK restaurants and not any of countries about reopening. The Recency of the article is very recent, making the value for the article being high as it's one of the restaurants that have announced reopening within the last couple of weeks and it's mentioned not only in this article but even on the news broadcasts and other news outlets. For Currency, the discussion on when McDonald's was going to reopen was talked about after a few other restaurants (like Costa, Greggs, KFC or Burger King as big examples of recent updates on their status of them being reopened for delivery only). Continuity is present within mentions of the different locations on which they will reopen by within the next couple of days, keeping an audience looking out for where ever they will reopen in what locations. Uniqueness to the article isn't that unique as the news of any story involving a location or business reopening to the public isn't a surprise to whatever pops up throughout the week. The simplicity of the article is quite simple and straight forward explaining the topic being presented. For personality, technically the story centers around a popular takeaway restaurant which most people are aware of so using the mention of McDonald's within the article which attracts people into the article due to the mentioned restaurant. For predictability, the article about reopening was most likely predicted by both the public and the news outlet as like mentioned before, other restaurants within the country have reopened so the predictability of McDonald's announcing something like that was expected. For people, this doesn't fully fit within the category as it's not highly important. For Exclusivity, it was mentioned on various other news outlets and unsure on who reported it first but since it's a new topic/article, it is most likely high value within the news. For size, the size of the article's importance low to medium as it doesn't fully talk about recent topics but important to the general public as it talks about it's reopening in various and limited locations around the UK.
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