1) TV News case study 1: Channel 4 News

2) TV News case study 2: BBC News at Six

3) TV News case study 3: coverage of the General Election across different news programmes

4) TV News case study 4: independent case studies (BBC3 60 Second News and Newsround)

5) News Values blog task

6) TV News audience - creating a running order

7) TV News representation - analysing Sky News coverage of the 2011 riots

1) Sky news has chose to to represent the story on the side of the police.They favoured the police.

2)The police are favoured and are presented as heroes.

3) Young people represented in this coverage as violent and abusive youths. 

4) In the news you are sometimes presented with crime stories which have the criminals who the  get convicted so the end equilibrium is them getting punished.  

5) The police are presented as heroes and the people rioting are presented as villains. Dialogue like "the police are tackling these problems" demonstrates this.

6) Citizen Journalism is used to portray the story in a non-institutional way.It may be the most genuine piece of journalism as their is no/very little modification from news institutions. 

Channel 4

Basic details

1.     7pm weekdays on channel four  

2.     Original airing 2 November 1982

3.     International emmy award for news, British academy television award for best news coverage, best news and current affairs journalism

4.      It is produced by ITN, and has been in operation since Channel 4's launch in November 1982.

Presenters

Jon Snow, Matt Frei, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Cathy Newman is the presenters.          

1.  They are wearing formal suits.

2.  TV News programme use a variety of presenters to keep it interesting for the viewers.

3.  They help question and give responses.

4.  There is more males than females and more people of the white ethnicity than any other.

Opening sequence


1.           The first shot is when john snow introduces the programing.

2.             The first sequence is a moving animation that introduces channel four news.

3.             There is dramatic news music at the start of the animation to make it look professional.

4.            All news stories are introduced at the beginning.

Studio mise-en-scene

1.             The audience can see the desks and computers.

2.             When the presenter is presenting the news story he is standing and when he is discussing he is sat down at the desk.

 4.             The channel four colours are used as it allows the show to be branded adequately