Case Study 3: news stories covering start of General Election campaign 2015

1) What is the angle of a news story? Give an example to explain your answer.
     The perspective that the provider/journalist takes.
2) What is the difference between tabloid and broadsheet news coverage?
    Tabloid has less serious content,  focusing instead on Celebrities, Sports and crime stories.
3) What would be an example of a tabloid-style TV news programme?
     STV
4) What would be an example of a broadsheet-style TV news programme?
    Channel 4 News
5) What is the difference between international, national, regional and local news coverage?
     International = World News
     National = UK- Wide News
     Regional = London/Yorkshire/Scotland
     Local= West London/Leeds/ Edinburgh



BBC News election story - via YouTube

1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell?

2) What angle does the report take on the story?

3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage?
    It has characteristics of both tabloid and broadsheet-style coverage.

4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why?


Sky News election story not available online - use your notes

1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell?
    Regional

2) What angle does the report take on the story?
   It favours the conservatives possibly because Sky News will make more profit if the conservatives are in power.

3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage?
    Broadsheet

4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why?


STV (Scottish) coverage of the election story

1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell?
National but predominantly regional due to

2) What angle does the report take on the story?

3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage?
    Tabloid
4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why?


Channel 4 News coverage of the election story.

1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell?
    Regional, it is about and only includes views of UK citizens.

2) What angle does the report take on the story?

3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage?
    Broadsheet

4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why?
    A young audience, 16-35 Because all footage has been cut so there is only necessary information        and so the attention of the audience is retained.

News Values

Negativity
The 9/11 coverage fits the Negativity news value because it involves death and tragedy on a large scale. It also doesn't just affect a small group of people, it has a more global impact.

Closeness to home

The London Bombings fits the closeness to home value because the 'attacks' were carried out in local areas of London, close to the homes of the majority of their audience.
Immediacy

The story clearly fits the Immediacy news value as it was live footage of a case unfolding, meaning the people who were watching would have known the verdict and sentence as soon as it happened.

Simplicity

The story of the avalanche on Mount Everest fits the Simplicity news value because there are no controversial or debatable causes to this.

Uniqueness

The story fits the uniqueness value because it is an unusual story that no-one had heard about before and it has a good quality video to support it.

Elite nations or people

The story fits the elite nations or people value because if something like this had happened in a 'less important' country it would not have made news in another country, however this story is from the US therefore exposes the fact that they only focus on stories on important people or places.