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News analysis  The main element of my radio show is a news bulletin. Therefore, I am going to be analysing the different ways that news is presented. For instance the different formats news can be found in such as: radio news, newspapers, tv news, and online news. I will examine if there are similar conventions within these formats.  I am going to start off by looking at national news stories online from BBC news and national newspapers websites, such as The Guardian. I am going to analyze a range of different stories in detail, to see if they contain news values and the 5 W's. Following this, I will also be doing the same thing for local news stories as well.  Differences between national and local news stories  I will be looking at both national and local news stories, and how they are presented. The difference between both of these is that local news focuses on on news stories within the area that you live in. Whereas national news focuses on news stories outside of the

News value's News values are the factors defined by Galtung and Ruge, which help to explain how journalists and editors decided that certain news stories and images were accepted as newsworthy, while others were not. These values applied these factors to news stories in newspapers as well as being applied to radio news bulletins.  Examples of news values goes as followed: Immeadiacy - Has it happend recently? Is the story "breaking" These kind of stories often make it to the front pages of news papers, or the top of a radio news bulletin  Elite people - Does the story concern well known people, such as celebrities? Newspapers (e.g. tabloids such as The Sun, The Mirror, The Star), radio stations (e.g. capital or kiss) and television news broadcasting (E News) are all swayed by stories including this kind of news value  Conflict - Does the story contain drama in describing disagreements, arguments fights or battles between 2

The five W's  The best way to define news stories, is to describe them in the form of 'The five W's'. This is used by journalists as a formula of getting the full story.   For example: Who is it about? What happend? Where did it take place? When did it take place? Why did it happen? The 5 W's are the essential part of the news report, which audiences look for within a story. Editors and news journalists often use the 5 W's towards the start of the story. This is done in order to immediately grab the readers attention and helps determine whether the news report will catch their eye or not. Furthermore, journalist's also use the 5 W's as they argue that by missing out any of these questions will leave a hole in the news article, as this is where the vital information is stored.  This has lead me to understand that I must include all the 5 W's when it comes too making my stories, and I should include them to