Testing what you've learned...
1) What is the angle of a news story? Give an example to explain your answer. The news angle is the perspective that the news provider takes on a certain event. Changing the angle can significantly alter the way a news story is presented. For example, the STV coverage of the election story was presented from a Scottish angle.
2) What is the difference between tabloid and broadsheet news coverage? Tabloids are less serious, focusing instead on celebrities, sports and crime stories. Broadsheet newspapers tend to cover serious news e.g. politics, economics and international stories.
3) What would be an example of a tabloid-style TV news programme? Sky News
4) What would be an example of a broadsheet-style TV news programme? BBC News at 10
5) What is the difference between international, national, regional and local news coverage? International is world news, national is UK based news, regional (for us) would be stories mainly concerning London, and local would be mainly concerning West London.
Answer the questions on the election coverage clips...
BBC News election story
1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell? This is National because as well as referring to the candidates in England, it equally refers to Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP candidate.
2) What angle does the report take on the story? A national/UK angle.
3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage? It's more broadsheet style because its way of presenting the story is very formal.
4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why? I would expect a more educated audience to watch this type because of the way they present it. It gives information that mainly educated, older people will understand, information and langauge that less young people will understand.
Sky News election story not available online - use your notes
1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell? Again, because it talks about the SNP as well as the other parties, this makes it National News.
2) What angle does the report take on the story? A government angle because it gives an unbiased report of all the parties.
3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage? This is more tabloid style because it makes a few jokes regarding Larry the Cat which is something people don't need to know because they're interested in the candidates.
4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why? I would expect a slightly younger audience to watch this because it gives a more interesting, simpler report on the story.
STV coverage of the election story
1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell? This is regional story because its main focus is the SNP and Nicola Sturgeon, with less focus on other parties.
2) What angle does the report take on the story? Its angle is 100% Scottish.
3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage? It has a mix of both tabloid and broadsheet because it includes graphics in the report which could be accused of being 'dumbed down' for younger audiences to understand.
4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why? I would expect the audience to be predominantly Scottish because it's Scottish TV, and I think the ages will differ, depending on the ages of people interested in the story, but I would expect the audience to be quite young because how the graphics make the dates concerning the election easier to understand.
Channel 4 News coverage of the election story
1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell? This is a national story for the same reason that BBC News and Sky News are national.
2) What angle does the report take on the story? It takes a balanced angle on the story because the coverage of each party/party leader lasts for the same amount of time.
3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage? Although there are some elements of it that could make it tabloid style, it is outnumbered by the many broadsheet elements, e.g. formal language, dress, way of presenting the story.
4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why?
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