Introduction to the news

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17224370

I have previewed a news article on BBC which is 'Political Week in 60 Seconds in the East Midlands'. This is a news article which headlines news from the East Midlands in just 60 seconds. Within this 60 seconds there was four stories covered. The first story tells the audience about how plans to unite Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire in a devolution deal are not going ahead says a conservative MP. It announces how 6 different councils were against the scheme. Nottingham city council and the police have started a campaign to cease people from giving money to beggars on the street as they say it is more effective if you donate money to homeless charities instead. Work starts soon on a £1.4 million investment to include more seating into Derby city center and a sculpture in hope to bring more people to the city. A police investigation to financial irregularity of the election campaign which is run by Kate Alsop has been dropped due to her campaign costed more than what was legal. That is a summary of the news in 60 seconds and a brief description of the four stories. The stories are placed in order of importance, the news is political and has a lot of involvement with the police. When the story comes up about how the council are trying to disable to opportunity of giving money to beggars there is a visual image of a homeless man on the street, this engages the audience and probably upsets most as it is a upsetting thing to hear. The story of the Derby's city center has moving images of the city and it makes you visualize how things are going to change and how it will look in the future.  The last story about Kate Alsop shows her on camera throughout the whole clip, this shows her importance and power as she is the main focus and how she is walking with pace gives the audience an idea on how determined she is in doing what she does.  

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b073qpnh/bbc-news-at-six-22032016

This is another news report i found which involves a few news reporters. The first 20 minutes of the report is about the devastating bombings which happened at Brussels airport. Ben Wright is reporting live on scene just outside Brussels airport as hundreds of people such as airport workers, holiday makers, communists etc. are travelling away from the airport. Ben Wright interviews a woman who was just a few meters away from the explosion and how lucky she is to be alive. Speaking to one of the witnesses helps to engage the audience and make them realize what a upsetting time people are going through in Belgium. Footage of cars and the audio of police, ambulance etc. is upsetting to watch, it is told that the cars are going to collect the victims, all of this isn't nice to watch and it shows how dangerous the world is becoming, bombings which are causing death of innocent citizens makes you understand what the world is coming to. Ben Wright is Washington Correspondent for BBC news which is the main news-gathering department of the BBC. He was formerly Chief Political Correspondent for BBC Radio 4. Ben is the son of Tony Wright (Former Labour MP), his wife is Moira Phillips and he was born in Birmingham. He was educated at the voluntary-aided grammar school 'King Edward VI Five Ways which is in Bartley Green. 

News ordering is the way the news is placed from most important to least important. Top stories which are bound to catch the viewers attention are stated first and they usually have a longer plot to the less important stories. Negative stories are always placed before positive stories as this will help increase viewers and make people want to carry on watching.

Every morning there is a prospect list written up to decide what stories are going to be aired on that morning/evening. The director makes the decision on what stories are going to be shown and then the rest of the team choose whether the story is relevant and if it should be on the news. The news tends to start of with quite an emotional story of something upsetting which has happened. The negative stories soon merge into positive stories so that the viewers are left with a happy story so they aren't left saddened. The stories are done like this so that society keeps connected and enticed.

Negativity - Negative stories are always rated above positive stories. These are usually tragic stories such as death, violence, damage etc.

Closeness to home - The audience relates more to the stories which are geographically close to them or involving people from their country.

Recency - Newspapers do there best to reveal stories as soon as they happen and are also very competitive with breaking the news.

Currency - This is the opposite to recency. Stories which happened in the past are seen as valuables. For example, a murder could of happened weeks ago and although nothing has happened to do with the story this will still be spoken about for weeks or even months.

Continuity - These stories are extremely interesting and makes the audience tune into the news everyday to see what has changed and to keep up to date in the story.

Uniqueness - This is a unusual if not kind of surreal story which you would definitely not be expected in the news. An example of this could be 'man marries his car'

Simplicity - These are simple stories which are easy to understand just by reading the headline i.e. 'Cat stuck up tree'

Personality - These are stories which are based on a certain person either celebrity or an ordinary individual.

Expectedness - These are all stories which everyone knows are bound to happen, the audience expect these stories and therefor not surprised when they are revealed in the news.

Elite Nations or People - These can be any stories which cover an important, powerful nation which have higher news values than a story which would cover a less important nation.

Exclusivity - If there is only one newspaper or news programme covering a breaking news story then they will get scored a high score in the topic. The UK Sunday papers do this by breaking a story which no other news companies have revealed.

Size - If the story has a big impact such as an emotional story then the more people it will affect. The more money and resources involved, the higher its value will be.