An Introduction to the News

ITV News Weekend Teatime Sunday 17th June 2018

The stories covered were pressure on the NHS and the prime minister’s response with information about Brexit for an NHS Budget Boost, 630 migrants on a rescue ship finally docking in Spain after a week at sea, rebuilding Glasgow’s School of Art is likely to cost more than a million pounds, MP scapegoated does agree with criminalising up skirting but doesn’t agree with how it’s being done, mother of a boy with severe epilepsy wants government ministers to meet her to discuss changing the laws on the medicinal use of cannabis, Mexico winning against Germany in the World Cup and information on other matches, England’s preparations for the World Cup.

In the starting sequence the reporter gives an overview on stories that will be mentioned in the broadcast. The visuals and audio have been used to make it dramatic and to get people’s attention so that they will watch the broadcast.

The newsreader is Lucrezia Millarini, Lucrezia is female and 33 years old.

The role of Lucrezia is to present the news to the general public over the television. 

Reporter include:

 -Angus Walker. Angus is male and around 40-50 years old. 

-Chloe Keedy. Chloe is female and is around 30-40 years old.

-James Gibson. James is male and around 30-40 years old.

-Emma Murphy. Emma is female and is around 30-40 years old.

-Steve Scott. Steve is male and around 57 years old.

Skills that are necessary for newsreaders are confidence, good research, accuracy and attention to detail, a clear speaking voice and calmness under pressure.

News ordering is what news channels/companies follow when they would like to make their news headlines or stories more appealing to the audience.

The term given to a list of stories that will most likely appear in the broadcast is the headlines, they're usually in order of most important or relevant.

A story that will most likely be shown first would be something more important by the news' standards than anything else. For example possibly something about Brexit would be first in the news as it is a more important story than maybe football scores.

Other stories are still in a sort of order, it's still the stories deemed most important first but they begin to become scattered further into the news report.

It's important to think and act quickly in the news as it's is never the same, once one story is read another could become more important and news readers have to be ready for new news as well as the news they've done research on.

A slow news day is when nothing nationally or locally that is worth being televised.

The final story on a news report is usually upbeat so that the news isn't being left on a bad note, to get the audience feeling a little bit happier otherwise the news would be sad to watch.

News values are general guidelines used by media outlets to decide how much prominence to give a story.

Galtung and Ruge wrote about news values
News values include:
-Negativity. Negativity is about bad news, maybe including death or destruction, tragedy, bankruptcy, natural disasters or political upheaval.
-Personalisation. Personalisation is actions of people as individuals, an institution may be personalised to a prominent person.
-Reference to elite persons. Reference to elite persons is if person are more powerful they're more likely to appear on the news than ordinary people.
-Reference to elite nations. Reference to elite nations is when events are more likely to be reported if they occur in the developed world.
-Composition. Composition is is to provide a balance, for example good news with bad.
-Continuity. Continuity is once a story has achieved importance it will be covered for some time.
-Unexpectedness. Unexpectedness is the rarity of an event which leads to it's circulation in the public domain.
-Consonance. Consonance is when the familiar is more likely to be thought than the unfamiliar.
-Meaningfulness. Meaningfulness is when things are divided into two categories, an example would be cultural proximity.
-Unambiguity. Unambiguity is when events don't have to be simple but do still need to be accessible to the general public.
-Threshold. Threshold is how the size of an event indicates it's importance.
-Frequency. Frequency is how frequent a story is, if it happens a lot it most likely won't be televised as people already know about it.

News stories do fall under bias, they only really show one side of the story, and because they talk so much about one side the reader often agrees because it just makes sense. Bias can happen in the order of stories shown, the stories at the start of the report are more likely to get the most attention as they're first and deemed as 'most important'. Bias can also happen through Selection and Omission when the editor can remove parts of the story that they don't like and can actually leave out important parts of stories. Most news headlines are bias, especially on newspapers, the newspaper itself gives it's own opinion but doesn't give the opposite opinion. Newspapers can also be exaggerated which would make people reading the newspaper maybe agree if they have points to back up their story and there obviously wouldn't be an opposite opinion to contradict the newspaper's bias opinion. Shot selection and camera angles are also important when a news report is bias, the editor can cut interviews for example to show interviewees in a bad light. Parts of major events can be cut to make them look better or worse than they are. If different shots are taken and ordered differently the story formed by editors could be completely different to the original. The use of names and captions can be bias too, if someone has a job title within their caption this could make them more important than someone who could just have their name in the caption. Captions to pictures in newspapers can be completely bias, the editors could say a certain thing is happening as that is what it looks like in the photo but it may be something completely different and this could also bring us back to camera angles as photos can be taken in a certain way to show something that may not be completely correct. A photo could be of two people talking, but because it is taken from behind one person it may look like they're kissing and a news story could be made from that photo which is actually just an innocent conversation. Language can be used to persuade people that a certain thing is true or false for instance news readers are quite trustworthy and usually if they tell us something is right or wrong we will believe them, because why shouldn't we? Headlines can also be changed to give certain viewpoints a man could win an award but unless he's famous his name won't be in the headline, you'd have to read the story to find out who he is, if his name was included it would be giving him more recognition. Language can also be used to tickle people's emotions especially in news reports, a child could have a fatal disease and the news readers have to use the correct words in order for it to remain sentimental and respectful of the family of the child at the same time.