Radio News- Conclusion

After analysing these 3 radio stations, I found out that these radio stations had similar news to each other, but was worded differently, even though the stations are targeting completely different audiences.

What I also found out while finding the news values and facts about the news in the radio stations, is that even if the stories are so breaking, they appear on the radio station regardless what type of station it is. For example news such as the Alton Tower Rollercoaster disaster and Sam Allardyce fighting for his place in England. 

When I come to write my new bulletin, I will take into account a mixture of stories which is for the target audience and some which are not.

BBC Radio 4 News Bulletin- 6pm

                                             

Running order for the news bulletin at 27th September @6pm:

1. Headline: Sam Allardyce is fighting for his job

Facts in the story:

• Leaks on film breaking football transfer rules.
• Having business deals on player transfer.
• Sam Allardyce had to talk to the FA bosses.

News Values:

Surprised: This is an unusual event, because he just became the England manager and now did this bad event.

Immediacy: This story is still ongoing to see if he stays as manager for England or gets removed.

Negativity: This is bad news, especially for the England team and the supporters/fans.

      2. Headline: The worlds first baby has been born using a new technique

Facts in the story:

• Born from 3 DNA from people.
• Baby will become healthy.
• Researchers has stated that this is a big step forward.

News Values:

Surprised: This is an unexpected event because this has never been done before.
Balance: This is good news as it balances all other news.
Personalisation: This story is a children based because it is about a baby been born.

       3. Headline: Jeremy Corbyn is making his own case.

Facts in the story:

• Making a case for a nuclear free world, even though his policy is to renew.

News Values:

Immediacy: This news story has happened recently. This is a breaking news for UK and therefore appeared on the radio.

Balance: This radio story can be good because it means we are taking away all nuclear weapons and we will not be able to produce it again.

Conflict: This radio story will have arguments between the UN and other countries around the world because some countries might want to keep nuclear weapons and some do not.

         4. Headline: Educational fees for children in schools

Facts in the story:

• Location base is in Wales.
• Government are replacing tuition fees.

News Values:

Familiarity: The location where this is occurring is in Wales. Therefore, it is geographically close to us.

Amplitude: It does effect a large number of children attending schools across Wales.

Personalisation: This is a human interest story, especially for parents who have children.

TalkSport News Bulletin- 6pm

Running order for the news bulletin at 27th September @6pm:

1. Headline: Sam Allardyce leaks on film breaking football transfer rules.

Facts in the story:

• Sam Allardyce became England Manager only 67 days ago. 
• Filmed video on how to break transfer rules.
• FA chief executor is holding an emergency meeting of this event.

News Values:

Surprised: This is an unusual event, because he just became the England manager and now did this bad event. 

Continuity: This story will be ongoing to see what will happen to Sam Allardyce to check if he will stay as manager or leave. Also, today there was a press conference regarding this issue.

Negativity: This is bad news, especially for the England team and the supporters/fans.

      2. Headline: Owner Merlin of Alton Towers pay fine for rollercoaster crash.

Facts in the story:

• 2 Teenagers had leg problems while on the rollercoaster ride.
• Last June when it happened, it injured 16 people.

News Values:

Familiarity: This story is about what happened at Alton Towers and therefore it is geographically close to us.

Amplitude: It is a big event as it affected many people of rollercoaster and below.

Conflict: This event will create conflict between the families of people who died/injured and with Merlin Entertainments.

Negativity: This is bad news.

        3. Headline: School girl stabbed by a man

Facts in the story:

• Man arrested for suspicion of the 1965 murder.
• 14 year old school girl from wakefield, was stabbed on a toe path when making her way home.

News Values:

Familiarity: This story happened in Wakefield, West Yorkshire and therefore is geographically close to us.

Frequency: This event happens often because in allot of news there is always stabbing. 

Continuity: This story has been defined as news and therefore is not a ongoing/long-running story.

         4. Headline: No sexual assault charges on Sir Cliff Richard

Facts in the story:

• Dropping chargers was a correct thing.
• The Crown Prosecution Service examined 2 victims

News Values:

Elite people: This story contains a well known person such as Sir Cliff Richard (singer)

Balance: People did not  want him to be charged, its not a bad news story and therefore it balances out the negative stories

Capital FM News Bulletin- 6pm

 

Running order for the news bulletin at 27th September @6pm:

1. Headline: Owner of Alton Towers pay record fine for rollercoaster crash last year.

Facts in the story:

• Merlin Attractions has to pay 5million pounds for the Smiler crash of rollercoaster.
• 5 people were injured

News Values:

Familiarity: This story is about what happened at Alton Towers and therefore it is geographically close to us.

Amplitude: It is a big event as it affected many people of rollercoaster and below.

Impact: This story will effect our own lives because it would tell us that at amusement parks, rollercoasters can crash and therefore makes us scared to go on it.

Surprised: This is an unexpected event because the Smiler rollercoaster is a popular rollercoaster, and this has not happened before on this ride, even though it was made new in 2012. 

Conflict: This event will create conflict between the families of people who died/injured and with Merlin Entertainments.

Negativity: This is bad news.

      2.  Headline: Sam Allardyce breaks football transfer rules.

Facts in the story:

• Sam Allardyce became England Manager only 67 days ago.
• Filmed video on how to break transfer rules.

News Values:

Surprised: This is an unusual event, because he just became the England manager and now did this bad event.

Continuity:  This story will be ongoing to see what will happen to Sam Allardyce to check if he will stay as manager or leave.

Negativity: This is bad news, especially for the England team and the supporters/fans.

       3. Headline: Teenager hacking TalkTalk

Facts in the story:

• 19 year old boy named Daniel Kelly, form South Wales
• Black mailing TalkTalk for 100 million pounds.
• Is in court.

News Values:

Familiarity: This story has happened at South Wales. Therefore it is geographically close to us.

Predictability: We expected this to happen because this sort of things happen frequently.

Negativity: This is bad news for the TalkTalk Company.

        4. Headline: First US Presidential debate

Facts in the story:

• Donald Trump claimed there was a problem with his microphone.
• The Republican nominee was asked lots of questions by his rival Hillary Clinton.

News Values:

Familiarity: This story happened at in USA and therefore is geographically close to us.

Predictability: We expected this to happen because it is Donald Trump.

Elite People: This story does contain big people such as Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton

News Bulletin Comparisons On Different Radio Stations

Having looked at local and national news articles online, I'm now going to listen to news bulletins presented on the radio. During this stage, I'm not sure exactly what kind of radio station I will be doing. Therefore what I am going to do is to listen to a variety of news bulletins on different radio stations and see if the news is consistent even when on different radio stations.

I have chosen news bulletins from 3 different radio stations, BBC Radio 4, Capital FM and TalkSport, from the same time and the same day. I managed to do this by asking another two people if they could record this type of radio station at 6pm. I chose this designated timeframe because it is the main news in the evening. I made them use an app on their phones called Voice memos. This app records any audio you want to save. This worked, however in the future I am going to download the app 'tune in radio' on my phone which will allow me to record any radio at any time.

BBC Radio 4:

Capital FM:

TalkSport:

The things I am going to find out after doing this is to see if the news is similar throughout on different radio stations. I will be analysing each news bulletin later on.

Local and National News- Conclusion

Overall, after analysing 10 local and 10 national news, there was a range of news values being used. When analysing some of my news articles, some did not have all 5W's which I was surprised about. Mostly the articles I found are from BBC News but wanted to change it slightly so looked at different sites not just one website as you can see from my posts. I did this because I wanted to see what other conventions other websites used. After doing all this research and analysation, I understand what I must now include and not to include in my news bulletin. 

Science Local News Analysis

This article was taken from the Huffington Post. This story talks about watching films gives a pain killer.

Below is a link to the full article:

Film Watching- Science article

The 5W's:

Who: People watching films

What: If you watch films its bad for you

When: September

Why: When we get teary eyed it triggers a rush of feel-good chemicals, known as endorphins, which is a pain killer.

Where: Oxford University

News Values:

Immediacy: This has happened recently and is a breaking news because it concerns our health. 

Familiarity: This research where it took place is very close to us. 

Predictability: We did not expect this to happen to us. Negativity: This is bad news because it can cause our problems later on in life.

Politics Local News Analysis

This article was found on the BBC News website. This story explains to us about how the government will change school qualifications.

Below is a link tot he full article:

School qualifications

The 5W's: 

Who: School students 

What: Government plans to change school qualifications 

When: September 2016 

Where: UK 

Why: The Scottish government plans to scrap some unit assessments which are marked by teachers before pupils sit their exams. 

News Values:

Familiarity: This location of where it happened is in the UK. 

Personalisation: This is a human interest story because it is about students and will effect their parents. 

Immediacy: This story has happened recently but is not a breaking news.

Crime Local News Analysis

This article was again taken from the BBC News website. This story talks about Fans at a football match being arrested.

Below is the link to the full article:

Football Fans arrest- Crime article

The 5W's

Who: Football Fan

What: A football fan got a QPR (Queen Park Rangers) doll and he hanged it.

When: Last Week

Where: Glasgow derby at Celtic Park.

Why: Because he does not support QPR.

News Values: 

Immediacy: This story has happened recently but not a breaking news.

Predictability: We predicted this would happen because these sort of things occurring normally happen at football matches. 

Conflict: It will cause conflict between the two teams fans.

Negativity: This is bad news 

Technology Local News Analysis

This article was found on the BBC News website. This article talks about the Silicon Valley Brits.

Below is the link to the rest of the article:

Silicon Valley Brits- Tech article

The 5W's:

Who: Cal Henderson 

What: Silicon Valley Brits had to leave the UK behind. 

When: Earlier this month 

Where: USA 

Why: Because it would have been impossible to start Slack in the UK.

News Values:

Familiarity: The place where this happened was taken from the USA. 

Immediacy: This has happened recently, but is not a breaking news. 

Frequency: This does not happen often. Continuity: This story is already a news but will not be ongoing and long going.

Education Local News Analysis

This article was taken from the BBC News website. This article talks about when children are going on the web, there are getting abuse.

Below is a link to the full article:

Abuse online- Education article

The 5W's:

Who: Children

What: They are being abused online

When: During this week

Where: Around UK

Why: N/A

News Values:

Immediacy: This story has happened recently so therefore it is a breaking news.

Familiarity: This location is close to us.

Personalisation: This is a human interest story because it is about children getting groomed or abused online.

Disaster Local News Story Analysis

This article was taken from the BBC News website. This explains to us that a normal person who was driving manage to rescue people on a bus.

Below is the full link to the news article:

Heroic save- Disaster article

The 5W's: 

Who: A driver

What: He saved passengers on a bus which caught fire.

When: 21st September at 4:00pm

Where: Stateford Road

Why: There was an exhaust Failure  

News Values:

Personalisation: This is a heroic story because it is about a man who saved lives.

Negativity: You can argue that this is a good and bad news. It is a good news story because it shows how somebody saved many people. It can also be bad news because it shows that the bus got destroyed and will take time to clear up.

Frequency: This event does not happen often.

Impact: It can effect our own lives especially the families of who were involved. It could possibly threaten us because we may not want to go on a bus because it may have another engine failure. 

Immediacy: This has recently happen and will be a breaking news because this was a heroic thing which happened. 

Health Local News Analysis

This article was taken from the Health Care Conference. This article explains about face-down physical restraint is still being used in mental health wards.

Below is a link to the full article:

Health Care

The 5W's: 

Who: NHS patients 

What: Face down restraint are still being used. 

When: 2 weeks ago 

Where: UK 

Why: Its happening because it can restrict a patient's breathing, dropped only slightly over the two years following new guidelines. 

News Values: 

Amplitude: It does affect a large number of people many patients who are under the NHS. 

Impact: This can effect our own lives because it can reduce our breathing which is really serious. Negativity: This is bad news because it can make peoples lives at risk.

Business Local News Analysis

This article was found the BBC News website. This article is explaining to us about how the Royal Bank of Scotland wants to expand its branches.

Below is a link to the full article:

Bank of Scotland

The 5W's: 

Who: N/A 

What: A plan by Royal Bank of Scotland to sell more than 300 branches is in trouble. 

When: Last week 

Where: Scotland 

Why: One of the most promising bidders pulled out of talks. 

News Values: 

Familiarity: Where his has happened is close to where we are. 

Continuity: The story is ongoing because the RBS will need to fix the issue to ensure that they successfully manage to spread there branches. 

Amplitude: It does involve a large number of people because if there is not enough of these banks then it will be difficult for the people to travel to where there is branches.

Sport Local News Analysis

This article is from the Evening Standard. This article explains about a legendary footballer who was the first black footballer to play for England.

Below is a link to the full article:

English heritage honour football legend

The 5W's:

Who: Laurie Cunningham 

What: Blue Plaque of English Heritage 

When: September 2016 Where: Stoud Green, North London 

Why: was one of the first black footballers to represent England and became the first British footballer to play for Real Madrid.

News Values:

Familiarity: Where this event happened was close to us. 

Frequency: This event does not normally happen in football history. 

Elite People: This story does contain a famous person we already know who played for different teams and his name was Laurie Cunningham. 

Personalisation: This is a heroic story because he was honoured the blue plaque.

Entertainment Local News Analysis

This article was found from the Telegraph. This story talks about how Mary Berry i going to leave the tv show called Great British Bake-Off.

Below is the link to the full article:

Bake-Off- Entertainment article

The 5W's

Who: Mary Berry

What: Quitting the tv program

When: Earlier this week

Where: UK

Why: Her decision to stay with the BBC is out of loyalty to the broadcaster that gave the show its start.

News Values

Immediacy: This story has happened recently, and the story is a breaking news because many viewers watch this tv show in the UK and now that a main judge has left, it will effect the show later on.

Familiarity: This story has happened in the UK, which we are in.

Surprise: This is an unexpected event because, this has never happened before. This judge was on the show since it started, and now that she has left, it would not be the same show as it used to be before. 

National News- Overall Conclusion

After annotating the 5W's and news values for my 10 national news articles, I found out that in all articles, they have similar values. However, some of the articles I researched did not have all the 5W's which I was quite surprised about. Now that I have analysed these national articles, I understand what to include and not to include in my news bulletin later on when creating my radio project. By doing this, it lead me to deeply think on what my news bulletin should be about if I want to make it effective to the audience, who is listening to my radio.

Disaster National News Analysis

This article is from the BBC News website. This is article is explaining about the Great Barrier Reef getting destroyed.

Below is the link to the full article:

Great Coral Reef-Disaster article


The 5W's:

Who: The Chinese
What: Chinese coal ship to pay $29m.
When: April 2010
Where: The Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
Why: Because the coal carrier caused damage to the Coral Reef.

News Values:

Predictability: We expected this to not happen.
Conflict:  The government and the local people will have an argument against China.
Negativity: This is bad news because if the coral reef is destroyed, it will effect tourism because they create revenue and income for the country and if this happens, then tourists would not be able to come. This will create less profit for Australia and will make the economy fall.

Health National News

This article was found at the BBC News website. This talks about how the UN will remove drug-resistant infections.

Below is the link to the full article:

Drug Resistant Removal- Health article

The 5W's:

Who: The United Nation

What: The United Nations have agreed a landmark declaration to rid the world of drug-resistant infections.

When: September 2016

Where: N/A

Why: It is the fourth time a UN declaration has been reached on a health issue following HIV in 2001 and Ebola in 2013.

News Values:

Immediacy: This has happened recently. However, it is not a breaking news because it is one that only a few people know about.

Personalisation: This can be a heroic story because this shows that we are getting rid of diseases which happens. 

Balance: This story is a good news which will help people around the world. This story has balanced other news articles which I have previously done.

Business National News

This article is from the BBC News website. This article talks about how mobile phones will have new roaming charges.

Below is the full article link:

Data Roaming new plan- Business article

The 5W's:

Who: EU travellers

What: Time limit on free roaming for travellers using mobile phones have been  under new European Commission plans.

When: Earlier this month

Where: Europe

Why: Next year in June 2017,  limit on roaming charges has been in place with a full ban. From this point, people within the EU will be charged the same as they would be in their home country.

News Values:

Familiarity: This article is close to us, The people involved are from european countries.

Balance: This story is a good news for EU travellers and has balance the previous news.

Surprise: This was an unexpected event but in a good way because it will make a change to us and even the travellers who visit countries. 

Politics National News Analysis

This article is from the BBC News website. This talks about how Trump thinks that black people are unfit.

Below is the link to the article:

Donald Trump makes his statement

The 5W's

Who: Donald Trump

What: He had faced criticism after declaring that African Americans are in the worst shape.

When: Earlier this week

Where: USA

Why: This was because Donald Trump had considered the US history of slavery and segregation.

News Values:

Immediacy: It has happened recently, therefore the story is a breaking news.

Familiarity: The location of this election is geographically close to us.

Amplitude: This is a big event because it involves/ effects a wide range of people who are black.

Impact: This story can have a profound effect on our own lives because it will challenge the views of society today on racism.

Predictability: We expected Donald Trump to say something like this, however, we did not expect it to be a racist comment.

Conflict: It will cause a massive conflict/ fight between black people and Donald Trump. And also other races, will retaliate/ protest against this. This is because today in society everyone should be treated equally regardless of the colour there are.

Negativity: This is bad news as will cause protest.

Scandal: This will create moral outrage across the globe not only in USA.

Entertainment National News Analysis

This article was found on the BBC News website. This talks about two big A-List celebrities who have been together for 2 years are now divorced.

Below is the link to this article:

Celebrity Divorce- Entertainment article

The 5W's:

Who: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie

What: His wife Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce and has asked for privacy on their children's behalf.

When: Earlier this week.

Where: Hollywood

Why: Angelina Jolie was upset with Pitt's parenting skills.

News Values

Immediacy: This has happened recently and is the breaking news.

Familiarity: This geographically is in USA which is close to us.

Frequency: Yes. This is because Brad Pitt was in a relationship before Jolie and now in this relationship they both broke up. 

Elite People: This article has celebrities which are very well-known and have been in many movies.

Sport National News Analysis

This article is from the BBC Sport website. This story is about a retired boxer who wants to fight with a martial arts fighter but does not happen.

Below is the link to the website:

Boxing Fight- Sport article


The 5W's:

Who: Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor.
What: Floyd Mayweather almost came out of retirement to fight Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) featherweight champion Conor McGregor.
When: 21st September 2016
Where: N/A
Why: The American five-weight world champion, 39, said earlier this year he would want $100m (£69.3m) to fight the 28-year-old Irish UFC star.

News Values:

Immediacy: It has happened recently. Therefore, this is breaking news on the BBC Sport website.
Frequency: This event does not happen often
Predictability: We did not expect this to happen.

Education National News Analysis

This news article is form the BBC News website. This story talks about in Harvard university how new students who joined this university are virgins with an iPhone.

Below is a link to the rest of the story:

Harvard new students- Education Article

The 5W's:

Who: Harvard's new students

What: Students arriving at Harvard are a mix of traditional values and new technology

When: Earlier last week

Where: Harvard University, Cambridge, United States

Why: New students are virgins with iPhone. And among the men, they are more likely to take LSD than smoke cigarettes.

News Values:

Familiarity: This location is close to us.

Amplitude: This is a big event as it affects new students.

Frequency: This does not happen often.

Predictability: We knew this was going to happen because in this generation many people use phones all the time and this similarity has happened before.

Crime National News Analysis

This news article is from the BBC News website. This story talks about an attack on a aid convoy in Syria.

Below is the link to the rest of the story:

Convoy attack- Crime article

The 5W's:

Who: The residents living in Urum al-Kubra
What: There was an attack on the convoy which could be a war crime
When: 20th September 2016
Where: Syrian city of Aleppo
Why: An air strike hit the trucks hours after the army declared a US-Russian brokered truce over.

News Values:

Immediacy: This has happened recently and is breaking news.
Amplitude: It is a big event because many people are injured approx 78,000 and few are dead.
Continuity:  This story is already defined as news and will be part of an ongoing story. This is because later on in Tuesday, Russia and US will have a talk about this event.
Conflict: there will be conflict between Syria and Russia
Negativity: This is bad news.

Technology National News Analysis

This news article is form the BBC News. This talks about how USB sticks in Australia have a harmful virus.

Below is a link to the rest of the article:

Virus-Technology article

The 5W's:

Who: Residents of Pakenham

What: USB sticks containing a harmful malware

When: Wednesday afternoon

Where: Pakenham, a suburb of Melbourne in Australia

Why: The virus infected the internal network of computers running Windows.

News Values:

Immediacy: This story came out quickly. Therefore, it was breaking news.

Impact: This can effect our own lives on a daily basis because if we buy/get memory sticks and plug them into our computers, we could lose lots of data.

Negativity: This is bad news.

Scandal:  This can provoke moral outrage to people because it will make us realise that if we buy an USB stick, it may contain a virus.

Science National News Anaysis

This news article is from the BBC News website. This talks about how scientists/ researchers discovers the hardest animal in the world.

Below is a link to the rest of the article:

Earth's hardest animal - Science article

The 5W's:

Who: Science Researchers

What: Discovered a genetic survival secret
When: N/A

Where: University of Tokyo

Why: It could be used to protect human cells

News Values:

Immediacy: This news story has happened today. This shows that the story was a breaking news.

Surprise: It is an unexpected event as it has never been accomplished before in human history.

Impact:  This story can have a profound effect on our own lives because later on in life, it can support our human cell, which then protects us from living things of radiation such as X-rays.

Continuity: This article can still be ongoing because researchers are still analysing these findings and coming up with an overall final conclusion.

News Introduction

In my radio I need to include a news bulletin. Therefore, I am going to start analysing different types of news stories formats such as business news and sport news etc. For this, I will be looking at the news online, newspapers, TV news and radio news. I will see if there is a consistency of conventions being used.

I am going to start by analysing ten different national news stories, then followed by ten local news stories, which I have found online on the BBC News website. For these different articles, I will be exploring to see if they use news conventions such as Impact or Immediacy and the use of the 5W's.

Here, I will look at a number of different types of stories which are:
1) Entertainment
2) Sport
3) Politics
4) Business
5) Health
6) Disaster
7)Education
8) Crime
9) Technology
10) Science

News Values

News values are the factors defined by Galtung and Ruge that help to explain how journalists and editors decided that certain news stories an image were accepted as newsworthy, while others were not. While they applied these factors to news stories in newspapers, they can also be applied to radio news bulletins.

Immediacy: Has it happened recently? Is the story 'breaking'?

Often pushes the news story to the top of the bulletin.

Familiarity: Is it culturally or geographically close to us in London/Britain/Europe/USA?

This news value becomes even more important with local news coverage.

Amplitude: Is it a big event or one which involves large numbers of people?

This normally pushes stories up the bulletin.

Frequency: Does the event happen?

The news editors could push the news story down the bulletin.

Impact: Can we identify with the story as having a profound effect on our own lives? Does the story contain elements that would make us feel threatened?

Like amplitude a key news value, pushes the story to the top of the bulletin.

Predictability: Did we expect it to happen?
This may push the story towards the bottom.

Surprise: Is it an unusual or unexpected event?
This tends to push the article to the top of the news bulletin and then this will shock the readers because it would be unexpected.

Continuity: Has this story already been defined as news? Is it part of an ongoing or long-running story?
If the news story is huge, the further away it is from the breaking news title, the further down the new bulletin it will appear.

Conflict: Does the story contain drama in describing disagreements, arguments, fights or battles between two or more people/ organisations?
Many of news stories contain this news value and will be at the top of the news bulletin.

Elite people: Does the story concern well-known people, such as celebrities?
This type of story would be found near the top of the news bulletin, especially certain type of radios like Kiss FM, entertainment magazines. These type of stories will focus on celebrities.

Personalisation: Is it a human interest story?

Negativity: Is it bad news?
Pushes up and dominates

Scandal: Is the story likely to provoke moral outrage from parts of the audience?

Balance: The story may be selected to balance other news, such as a human survival story to balance a number of stories concerning death.
Positive stories.

The 5 Ws

The 5Ws are the main information that readers, viewers and listeners expect to find within a news story itself. Journalists tend to include the 5W's in news articles so the audience knows what the news is about. Often the 5W's will appear towards the beginning of the news story as this helps the audience determine whether they will keep reading/watching/listening, but also means that if a story has to be cut this can happen without losing the most vital information. This has shown me that when I create my news stories I should include the 5Ws in my stories and within the first two paragraphs.

Who is it about:

What happened:

Where did it take place:

When did it take place:

Why did it happen:

Below is a  news story about the death of a famous actress which includes the 5Ws in the first few paragraphs.