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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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 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.

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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.

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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.