Digital News- Theory Workshop

During the workshop on Thursday 13th November we were asked to look at news stories that were pre-recorded and see the news values and news worthiness.
I was in a group with Sophie and Tim, we looked at ITV and Channel 5 on the 11.11.14.

ITV-22:30- 30 mins

• Remembrance Day- News worthy due to the audience want to see about the day (current). Ideologies of remembering people that are lost. Pictures from across Britain and France. 100 year anniversary of the start of WW1 and the poppies at tower bridge. Veteran interview (Iraq)
• David Cameron on Benefit claimers- Following Folk Devils, putting a cap on those who can access benefits, EU court case. Rochester by-election. 
• Home Office- Investigation into suspicions. Cover up? People are interested to see if the government are part of the issue in sex offenders. 
• Banks investigation- Banks to receive fine. They are trusted with most of the publics money therefore have a close proximity and effect on the audience. 
• Mass Sterilisation- India paying women to be sterilised causing deaths. Controlling the population. Going against norms and conventions in English society therefore is shocking by interesting for an audience. 
• Science- Landing on a comet. touch and go mission. 
• Papers- Tomorrows headlines 
• Remembrance- Money that has been raised through poppies (money that the public raised), Poem reading and Art exhibit. 

Channel 5-17:00- 24 mins 

• Remembrance- Poppies, trying to make it global, Canada, Belgium and France included. Veterans interviewed, from recent wars (Afghanistan). Interview with the person who designed the poppies at Tower Hill.
• Home Office- Investigation. No evidence for it to go further. Interview with David Cameron. 
• Pay Day Loans- Relevant to an audience that may be in debt. Explaining the changes in simple terms. Interview with some effected. 
• Terrorist Trial- Jury Dismissed. Ploy to kill Tony Blair and wife.
• Age- Second part of series. Talking about age. Reaching to an older audience. 
• Remembrance- 'bring people together'. Poem lines read by the public. 

ITV and channel 5 had different news programs but some of the same news. From this comparison it looks like ITV are more looking towards Hard news and Channel 5 soft news. They are owned by different companies making their news values different and can mean they are looking at different audiences. ITV can be compared to The Guardian and Channel 5 The Mirror, in the styles of reporting. 

Due to there being a range of choices in the media in what someone can watch and where they can get there information it has made news programs have to try harder to reach their audiences and made it more of a competition but they have to keep the same type of news telling. "The people who run the news stations know that, and they, as much as a new comer to the newsroom, need to know that person and what he expects, what he needs and what he wants", this quote by Boyd, Stewart and Alexander, gives the reasoning that the audience want to put on the news and see what they expect to see. Therefore the stories run are those that the audience want to know and hopefully what they need to know. Sometimes it does not always work that way as some news may put across a certain story without all the information but the audience is seen as a entity that will not go out and seek the truth for them selves therefore sometimes news broadcasters can get away with not portraying all the information.