BBC Radio 2 news analysis

List of news stories:
1: The 11 judges start reviewing article 50, about leaving the EU.
Facts In The Story:
They will discuss weather parlement should vote on it or not.
They decided MP's had to be consulted.
Article 50 is the process of leaving the EU.
News Values:
Familiarity: It is geographically close as its a story affecting the country in which we live.
Amplitude: It is a huge event that will effect a large number of people.
Predictability: It was something that was always going to happen.
Continuity: It is following the whole Brexit story.
Elite People: It involves the heads of the crown court who are elite people.

2: There are talks that school children should be taught so called British values to prevent racism.
Facts in the story:
The review was a request by David Cameron when he was prime minister.
News Values:
Familiarity: It is in England.

3: An English woman has been killed in Lapland.
Facts in the story:
She was stabbed.
She was working there for a tour company.
News Values:
Immediacy: This story has happened very recently.
Negativity: It is a bad story as someone has been killed.

4: The three ex football player who suffered abuse during the youth have now started an organisation which helps other people who have suffered abuse in the past.
Facts in the story:
It is called the Off side Trust.
 It has led to hundreds of other players coming forward.
News Values:
Familiarity: It is geographically close to us.
Continuity: This story comes after the coming forward of ex football players who suffered abuse.
Elite People: It involves elite ex football players.

5: An actor proposed to his girlfriend during a performance and they are now engaged.
Facts In The Story:
They were preforming in Peter Pan.
She said yes.
News Values: 
Frequency: Marriage proposals happen very often.
Elite People: It is a story about a famous actor.
Balance: It is used to balance all the other negative stories by being a happy positive story.

BBC Radio 4 analysis

Headlines:
1:The supreme court have began to hear the case of article 50, leaving the EU.
Facts in the story:
Article 50 is the process for leaving the EU.
It has been described as the biggest constitutional case for centuries.
The head of the court said that this case is about how leaving the EU is to happen and thats it.
The ruling is not expected till January.
News Values:
Familiarity: It is happening in the place in which we live.
Amplitude: It is an event which will effect lots of people.
Impact: It will have a big effect on many people.
Predictability: After the Brexit vote this was inevitable.
Continuity: This is an ongoing story and has and will be/ been for months.
Elite People: It involves the head of the crown court.

2: Italy's Prime minister has resigned after loosing a referendum.
Facts in the story:
He lost a referendum on constitutional reform.
The President will decide weather to elect a new prime minister or to disolve parliment and call an early election.
News Values:
Immediacy: It is a breaking story which has just happened.
Amplitude: It is a big story and an important one.
Continuity: It follows a referendum the has been discussed for months.
Elite People: It involves the now ex prime minister of Italy.

3: The German train worker who's negligence led to the death of 12 people has been jailed.
Facts in the story:
He has been jailed for 3 and a half years.
He was charged with involuntary man slaughter.
He confessed to playing on his phone when he was supposed to be working.
News Values:
Predictability: We expected that he would be jailed following his negligence.
Continuity: It follows the original story.

4: A British woman has been stabbed to death in Lapland.
Facts in the story:
She was working for a tour guide company in Lapland, Finland.
She was 25 years old.
News Values:
Immediacy: It has happened very recently and is thus breaking.
Negativity: It is a negative story as a woman has been murdered.

5: There are some people who are afraid to leave their homes due to religion or race due to fear of racism or islamiphobia.
Facts in the story:
A head of the muslim comunity said that they are as apposed to gender inequality as anyone else.
News Values:
Familiarity: It is happening in London.
Conflict: It is sort of a conflict between different religions and races.

6: The UN are campaining for a record £70million.
Facts in the story:
They say that the money is needed to help 90million people suffering in conflict.
News Values:
Balance: It is neither good nor bad so it is used to balance out the negative news stories at the end of the news.

7: The Japanese Prime minister is set to visit pearl harbour.
Facts in the story:
This was the place in which the Japanese attacked the Americans.
He will become the first Japanese Prime minster to visit the memorial.
News Values:
Elite People: It involves the Japanese Prime minister.
Personalisation: Its a nice story that represents the peace.
Balance: It may be used to balance out the negative stories that have been presented previously in the news.

Conclusion

To conclude, after analysing many local and national, there was a variety of news values being used. When analysing some of my news articles, some did not have all 5W's which I was concerned about. Mostly the articles I found are from BBC News but wanted to change it so I went on different websites. I did this because I wanted to see what other conventions which 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.

National/ International community news story analysis

This story was taken from the BBC News website about people requesting support by the government over Birmingham pub Bombing.

Here's a link to the full story

The 5 W's:

Who: Relatives of the victims of the Birmingham pub bombings.

What: Families call for government funding for legal fees. 

Where:  Outside the pre- inquest hearing.

When: Monday

Why: Because of their relatives being killed in the pub bombings.

News Values:

Immediacy: It is happened recently on Monday.

Familiarity: It is happening geographically close, in Birmingham.

Continuity: It has been an ongoing court hearing. 

National/ International business news story analysis

This story was taken from the BBC News website about the rise in living wage in the UK.

Here's a link to the full story

The 5 W's:
Who: The OECD
What: They are urging caution over increase over living wage.
Where: The UK
When: Today
Why: Because Chancellor Phillip Hammond pledged to raise the living wage to £7.50 an hour

News Values:
Immediacy: It has happened very recently.
Familiarity: It is happening in the UK which is geographically close.
Amplitude: It is a big proposal that can potentially effect many people.
Impact: This proposal will have a big impact on our lives as employers will have to pay more and employees will get paid more.
Elite people: This involves elite members of the public and government.

National/ International technology news story analysis

This story was taken from the BBC News website a new super computer project in Japan that has recently started.

Here's a link to the full story

The 5 W's:

Who: Japan

What: Have started a new project to make the fastest computer yet and are planning on spending £140m a year on it.

Where: In Japan

When: By the end of 2017

Why: the machine would be used to carry out research by analysing by analysing massive data sets. 

News Values:

Immediacy: This has happened very recently.

national/ international society news story analysis

This story was taken from the BBC News website about a potential strike by postal staff.

Here's a link to the full story

The 5 W's:
Who: postal staff
What: plan to strike which may effect Christmas post.
Where: In the UK
When: Saturday 3rd December 2016
Why: due to a continuing dispute over jobs, pensions and branch closures.

News Values:
Immediacy: The dispute is on going and the proposed strike is in the near future.
Familiarity: It is geographically close in the UK and will effect us.
Amplitude: It is an event which will effect many people.
Impact: It will impact us directly as the post service will be postponed in a busy time of year.
Continuity: It follows an on going dispute over jobs, pensions and branch closures of the postal services.
Scandal: It is likely to cause an outrage by the public as will have a profound impact on the public. 

National/ International science news story analysis

This story was taken from the BBC news website about a strong crab.

here is a link to the full story

The 5 W's:
Who: Researchers in Japan.
What: discovered that the coconut crap has the strongest pinching force of any crustacean.
Where: Japan
When: Last week.
Why: N/A


News Values:
Immediacy: It has been discovered recently.
Surprise: It is an unusual story that we would not usually expect to see in the news.
Balance: It may be used to balance out the news at the moment.

National/ International Disaster News story analysis

This story was taken from the BBC news website about forest fires in Israel.

here is a link to the full story...

The 5 W's
Who: People living in Haifa
What: Are being evacuated due to forest fires and their homes are being destroyed as a result of the fires.
Where: Haifa, Israel
When: They're on going.
Why: Hot dry winds are pushing the flames into inhabited areas.


News Values:
Immediacy: This is an ongoing event taking place in Israel.
Amplitude: It is effect large numbers of people who are having to evacuate their homes.
Negativity: It is a bad news story.

National/ International crime news story analysis

This story was taken from the BBC News website about a woman who shot her house guest.

here's a link to the full story

The 5 W's
Who: Alana Annette Savell, 32
What: shot her house guest
Where: In Canada
Why: Because they had 'over stayed their welcome, and were being loud'.
When: Monday morning about 1am

News Values:
Immediacy: This story has happened recently. (Monday morning).
Familiarity: It took place in the USA.
Negativity: Its a negative peice of news as someone has murdered.

National/ International sports news story analysis

This story was taken from the BBC News website about the Brazilian GP.

Here's a link to the full story

The 5 W's
Who: Nico Rosberg
What: Can he win the Brazillian GP
Where: Brazil
When: 9 November 2016
Why: Because he has never won it before

News Values:
Immediacy: It is an event which is happening very soon in the future.
Amplitude: It involves large numbers of spectators.
Elite people: It involves famous sports competitors.

national/ International war news story analysis

This story was taken from BBC News website about the war in Iraq.

here is a link to the full story

The 5 W's
Who: Men in Iraq
What: Dressed as police officers and tortured and killed people from the village.
Where: Iraq
Why: N/A
When: Late October 2016

News Values:
Immediacy: It has happened relatively recently.
Continuity: It is an ongoing war in the middle east.
Conflict: The story is mainly about conflict in the middle east.
Negativity: It is a bad news story that contains upsetting news.  

national/ International politics news story analysis

This story was taken from BBC News website about the USA presidential election.

Here's a link to the full story

The 5 W's
Who: Donald Trump
What: He is acusing the FBI of letting Clinton off too easily and protests against her clearance of the charges.
Where: United States
When: 7th November 2016
Why: As he is running for president and his main competition is Clinton.


News Values:
Immediacy: The story has happened very recent and you could say its breaking.
Familiarity: It is taking place in the USA.
Amplitude: This particular event involves millions of people and will affect huge numbers of peoples lives.
Impact: It is all to do with the USA presidential election which will potentially have an effect on our lives.
Continuity:  Its part of a huge on going story as the presidential election comes to its final stage.
Conflict: It involves a conflict between 2 candidates.
Elite People: It involves two famous successful candidates.

local community news story analysis

This story was taken from the Bristol post news website and is about the return of a carnival in bristol.

 here's a link to the website for the full story

The 5 W's
Who: St Paul's Carnival
What: Is set to return next yr to Bristol
Where: Bristol
When: Next year
Why: It commemorates Bristol's culture and Afrikan Caribbean community

News Values:
Familiarity: It is geographically very close to us.
Amplitude: The carnival itself involves large numbers of people.
Personalisation: It is a happy, positive piece of news and will bring joy to the people of Bristol.

Balance: It may be selected to balance out the other news as its happy and positive. 

local science news story analysis

This story was taken from BBC News website about not flushing wipes down the toilet.

Here's a link to the full story

The 5 W's
Who: Britain's water companies.
What: a lot of money is being wasted having to unblock drains that have been blocked up by wipes which are being flushed down the toilet.
Where: the UK
Why: Blocked drains due to wipes.
When: 26 October 2016

News Values:
Familiarity: It is a story which is geographically close to us and has an effect on us.
Amplitude: This story involves a large number of people and effects large numbers of people.
Impact: It does an effect on us in a couple of ways as the drains are being blocked and thus there will be more money required to unblock them.  
Negativity: It is a bad piece of news and has a negative affect on us.

local war news story analysis

This story was taken from the BBC News website about a man who was shot during WW1 and now being remembered.

Link to the article
 The 5 W's
Who: A Bristolian soldier, Alfred Jefferies
What: His family was shocked when they found out how he died, by court Marshall and was shot.
When: 1 November 2016
Where: Bristol
Why: Because it is 100 years since his death.

News Values:
Familiarity: It has happened geographically close to us.
Frequency: It is a rare event which we doesn't often appear in the news.
Negativity: It is a sad/ bad piece of news as a soldier got shot and killed.
Impact: It will have a profound affect on the family of the soldier as they find out how and why he was killed.

local society news story analysis

This story was taken from BBC news website about a transgender person who was treated badly.

 link to the article


The 5 W's:
Who: A trans prisoner, Tara Hudson
What: Treated badly in prison due to her being trans
Where: HMP Prison
When: 2015
Why: due to her being trans

News Values:
Conflict: Its an argument between an ex prisoner and the prison.
Negativity: Its a negative story.
Scandal: It will cause outrage amongst transsexual people and some other people.

local sports story analysis

This story was taken from BBC website about Arsenal who played Reading.

link to the website
The 5 W's
Who: Arsenal FC
Where: In North London
When: 25 October 2016
Why: An EFL match
What: Arsenal beat Reading

News Values:
familiarity: it took place and is about a team that is geographically close.
Amplitude: the attendance of this event was approximately 60,000.
Frequency: Matches at this venue involving Arsenal happen often.
predictability: We expected Arsenal to win.
Conflict: It was a competitive match between 2 teams.
Elite People: it involved famous people in football.

local Business news analysis

This story was taken from BBC news Website about a discussion about Green losing his knighthood.

Here is a link to the full story.
Green to lose his knighthood?

The 5 W's
Who: Sir Philip Green
What: grow for him to lose his knighthood
Where: In London
When: on the 20th of October 2016
Why: Because they claim he shouldn't have had it in the first place.

News Values:
Familiarity: It is happening in London, therefore it is geographically near us.
Elite People: He is a well known person.

local politics news story analysis

This story was taken from the BBC news website about the Ministers not having a plan for brexit.

Here is a link to the full story.

Brexit story

The 5 w's

 Who: European Foreign affairs chairman

What: He says that ministers have no plan for Brexit

Where: In London

When: 19th October 2016

Why: Because he is unhappy with the process of the BREXIT

News Values:

Familiarity: It is happening in the UK

Continuity: It is an on going subject in the news.

local tech news analysis

this story was taken from BBC news about a tech company creating a sat nav unique to lorries.

Heres a link to the full article:

Sat nav for lorries

The 5 w's

what: A traffic navigation company are creating a system that with prevent lorries from crashing into bridges that are too low. 

where: in the UK

when: It will launch by the end of the year. 

why: to help prevent lorries from crashing into bridges and getting stuck on narrow roads

Who: A multi million £ company. 

News values:

Familiarity: It is happening where we live in the UK.

Continuity: This story has happened as a result of many lorry crashes in the past.

local disaster news story analysis

Local disaster news story analysis
This story was taken from BBC news about a bus that caught on fire in London.

Here is a link to the full story:

bus fire

The 5 W's

who: A Bus

What: A bus caught fire 

Where:near Liverpool Street Station in London

When: just before 10:00am on the morning of the 2nd October 2016

Why: N/A

News Values

Amplitude: It is quite a big story as it involves everyday commuters being affected and it took place in quite a busy well know area or London.
Surprise: Its not an event that we would expect to happen so it is abit of a surprise.
Negativity: It is a negative story.

local crime news story analysis

Local crime news analysis

This story was taken from BBC news and is about a man who got stabbed in barnet.

here is a link to the full story:

man stabbed in barnet

The 5 W's

who: Victim named, Ali Nasrollahi aged 22

what: He got stabbed in Barnet

When:Thursday afternoon 

Where: North London (Barnet)

Why: N/A

News Values

Immediacy: This story happened recently but is not breaking

Predictability: Its not a very rare accourance but it was not predicted at all

Conflict: It may cause conflict between the suspects and the family and friends of the victim.

Negativity: This a bad news story. 

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 if it is a new story it will appear first on a news bulletin or at least near the top.

Familiarity: Is it culturally or geographically close to us in London/Britain/Europe/USA?
If the story has happened a location of relevance to the reader he will be more interested in finding out what happened.

Amplitude: Is it a big event or one which involves large numbers of people?
This will more often then not push the story up the bulletin.

Frequency: Does the event happen often?
Frequency can result in the editors pushing the news down the bulletin however it can also have the opposite effect.

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?
This again can push the story up the bulletin.

Predictability: Did we expect it to happen?
this can push the story down the bulletin.

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. Most journalists tend to include the 5W's in news articles so the audience knows what the news tends to be about. Often the 5W's usually appear towards the beginning of the news story. This will help the audience determine whether they will keep reading, watching or listening, but this also means that the reader will be informed of the most crucial information about the article. 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:

preliminary task - music and SFX

preliminary task script

This is my script for my made up radio station which will contain a jingle, a presenter introducing a guest, the guest responding and a clip featuring the guest. My guest is a pop music artist who has just preformed a record breaking show.


Jingle: Finchley FM, your home of music.

 presenter (Bill Bryson): My name is Bill Bryson of finchley FM radio station. Today we have a very exciting guest in, who just broken the world record for the biggest attendance in a single concert! im honoured to introduce, John Carlton.         John welcome to the show! Thanks for coming!

John (singer): Thank you very much Bill, its a pleasure to be here.

Presenter (Bill Bryson): Now id like to start off by asking how you're feeling and what your emotions are after last nights performance.


John  (singer): Well to be totally honest with you i am still getting over it, it was a mesmerising event and i just cant believe where i have got to today.

Presenter (Bill Bryson): well for those listeners that dont know, John is promoting a documentary of his road to fame which will be out in February. Now lets have a listen to a small clip from the documentary;

Clip from the documentary:

John: Well this is the pub where my career all started. Brings back a lot of good memories. ( background noise of a pub).

Interviewer: Do you remember your first performance here?

John: Yes, i remeber it like it was yesterday. the place was very busy for a saturday, about 100 people here and i remeber i was a nervous wreck and i just walked out on to the stage which was not really a proper stage, and i just started playing and all the punters loved it so it became a regular occurrence. and thats where it all started.

Jingle to end the show: