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Monday, 27 June 2011
Monday, 20 June 2011
Writing Newspaper articles
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1st sentance 5 w's. No more than 22 words as a grab line
1st paragraph - make reader curious include a hook. Be acurate, facts should be correct, include cliches and search for special ingridient that makes your story stand out.
paragraphs throughout should consist of only two or three sentances.
Use quotes (expert opinion/direct witness)
Keep language simple
9 golden rules -
1 - K.I.S.S (keep it short and simple) local news papers usually have shorter sentances of between 16 and 20 words. Keep to familiar simple vocabulary which the broadest audience can access
2. Reading for speed - sentances and headlines are short. Crossheads break the story down into bitesize pieces, collums are narrow and easy to read.
3. never use 3 words when 1 will do - you will rarely see these phrases: in the future, in the first instance, on subject of, in the small hours, in consequence of
4. dont repeat yourself - dont use two words that mean the same thing e.g 'uniquely special' 'final outcome' 'important essentials'
5. Use active verbs e.g burgulars took the corgie rather than the corgie was taken by the burgulars
6. play with language - use puns e.g 'chippy gets a battering' 'steve davis arrived on cue'
7. make the story personal - particulary in local papers, people sell papers
8. catogorize people in the news - e.g grey haired pensioner, secret lover, mover of two, retired teacher 65
9. things to avoid - cliches - euphamism, being too chatty (no gossip) unnecasery use of foreign or american phrases
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1st sentance 5 w's. No more than 22 words as a grab line
1st paragraph - make reader curious include a hook. Be acurate, facts should be correct, include cliches and search for special ingridient that makes your story stand out.
paragraphs throughout should consist of only two or three sentances.
Use quotes (expert opinion/direct witness)
Keep language simple
9 golden rules -
1 - K.I.S.S (keep it short and simple) local news papers usually have shorter sentances of between 16 and 20 words. Keep to familiar simple vocabulary which the broadest audience can access
2. Reading for speed - sentances and headlines are short. Crossheads break the story down into bitesize pieces, collums are narrow and easy to read.
3. never use 3 words when 1 will do - you will rarely see these phrases: in the future, in the first instance, on subject of, in the small hours, in consequence of
4. dont repeat yourself - dont use two words that mean the same thing e.g 'uniquely special' 'final outcome' 'important essentials'
5. Use active verbs e.g burgulars took the corgie rather than the corgie was taken by the burgulars
6. play with language - use puns e.g 'chippy gets a battering' 'steve davis arrived on cue'
7. make the story personal - particulary in local papers, people sell papers
8. catogorize people in the news - e.g grey haired pensioner, secret lover, mover of two, retired teacher 65
9. things to avoid - cliches - euphamism, being too chatty (no gossip) unnecasery use of foreign or american phrases
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
News Values
There are millions of storys everyday which sould make the enws, however journalists need to find a method to help them decide which stories they should choose to use. They use a set of criteria called news values to help them select the news.
Frequency - The story needs to be reported quickly, a murder would need to be established quickly.
Threshold - Larger event that effects more people is more likely to be taken interest in by large group.
Unambiguity - simple story that does not challenge stereotypes
Meaningfulness - If it effects local people it will have a place in local newspapers, person is murdered near their house, more important.
Consonance - events that meet our expectations become news easily
Unexpectedness/suprise - Something ouit of the ordinary (man bites dog > dog bites man)
Continuity - More informatiopn on something large established as good news already like a war.
Composition - Balance news, but also it is shown that western news is more important to people as is reference to elite people
Personalisation - Facts that effect people, like interviewing people to give insight into the event
Negativity - Bad news is better spread than good news.
Actuality - if there is genuine evidence it is reported more
Elite nations - Western and rich large countries are more important than poor countries, unless something extremely drastic happens
Elite persons - Celebrity stories are seen as more important
News agenda
is to do with which stories you select for your newspaper and the priority that you give to those stories, more important stories will have more text and more images to go with them. News values are the same for all news organizations and what ever target audience you have but different news papers give priority to different news values. A broad sheet news paper would give priority to elite nations but a tabloid would give priority to personalization. A local newspaper gives priority to meaningfull ness (close to home/local)
News Selection
all news involves the selection of informatyion by journalists because it would be impossible to include every single detail. When photographs are taken choices by the photographer must be taken on how they wish to represent the event. Captions underneath pictures help to lead readers towards a preffered reading of the image
Ideology
Ideology is a set of beleifs and ideas which are heald by a society or groups of people or individuals. In our country the dominant ideology is probably white, male, middle class, middle aged and conservative. a local newspaper will try to keep a neutral perspective as to not upset an audience. The layout of the paper is very formal to give a sense that the paper is trustworthy and reliable. Going to be targetting a local but very broad audience. Broad means that the age range can go from both extremes and all socio economic groups will be reading it and all religious beleifs and interests, different political beliefs and different family positions.
Primary media - when we pay clsoe attention to the text
secondary media - is where we pay little attention to the text
tertiary - we are not concious of the media
Circulation
if one person buys the news paper it could be read by 30 or 40 more people in the day
Frequency - The story needs to be reported quickly, a murder would need to be established quickly.
Threshold - Larger event that effects more people is more likely to be taken interest in by large group.
Unambiguity - simple story that does not challenge stereotypes
Meaningfulness - If it effects local people it will have a place in local newspapers, person is murdered near their house, more important.
Consonance - events that meet our expectations become news easily
Unexpectedness/suprise - Something ouit of the ordinary (man bites dog > dog bites man)
Continuity - More informatiopn on something large established as good news already like a war.
Composition - Balance news, but also it is shown that western news is more important to people as is reference to elite people
Personalisation - Facts that effect people, like interviewing people to give insight into the event
Negativity - Bad news is better spread than good news.
Actuality - if there is genuine evidence it is reported more
Elite nations - Western and rich large countries are more important than poor countries, unless something extremely drastic happens
Elite persons - Celebrity stories are seen as more important
News agenda
is to do with which stories you select for your newspaper and the priority that you give to those stories, more important stories will have more text and more images to go with them. News values are the same for all news organizations and what ever target audience you have but different news papers give priority to different news values. A broad sheet news paper would give priority to elite nations but a tabloid would give priority to personalization. A local newspaper gives priority to meaningfull ness (close to home/local)
News Selection
all news involves the selection of informatyion by journalists because it would be impossible to include every single detail. When photographs are taken choices by the photographer must be taken on how they wish to represent the event. Captions underneath pictures help to lead readers towards a preffered reading of the image
Ideology
Ideology is a set of beleifs and ideas which are heald by a society or groups of people or individuals. In our country the dominant ideology is probably white, male, middle class, middle aged and conservative. a local newspaper will try to keep a neutral perspective as to not upset an audience. The layout of the paper is very formal to give a sense that the paper is trustworthy and reliable. Going to be targetting a local but very broad audience. Broad means that the age range can go from both extremes and all socio economic groups will be reading it and all religious beleifs and interests, different political beliefs and different family positions.
Primary media - when we pay clsoe attention to the text
secondary media - is where we pay little attention to the text
tertiary - we are not concious of the media
Circulation
if one person buys the news paper it could be read by 30 or 40 more people in the day
Monday, 13 June 2011
What is News?
Here are a selection of definitions of news.
1. News is people - The News revolves around the people that the general public want to know about or will want to know about like celebrities and politicians etc depending on what audience it is aimed at.
2. Dog bites man - no interest.
Man bites dog - news
Anything unusual or out of the ordinary is news, ordinary is boring.
3. News is what someone somewhere wants to suppress, all the rest is advertising.
If someone doesnt want someone else to know about it, there has to be something wrong, which is why curious and nosy members of the public need to know about it, super injunctions are a prime example of someone hiding something and it going from what would be a small magazine scandal to a huge news story.
4. Fresh events reported, anything new or unheard is reported until it becomes old and heard by all.
Definitions
News must be new or fresh or at least have a fresh angle.
News must be presented as something that us not mundane; it must be an event.
The fresh event must be reported to become news.
1. News is people - The News revolves around the people that the general public want to know about or will want to know about like celebrities and politicians etc depending on what audience it is aimed at.
2. Dog bites man - no interest.
Man bites dog - news
Anything unusual or out of the ordinary is news, ordinary is boring.
3. News is what someone somewhere wants to suppress, all the rest is advertising.
If someone doesnt want someone else to know about it, there has to be something wrong, which is why curious and nosy members of the public need to know about it, super injunctions are a prime example of someone hiding something and it going from what would be a small magazine scandal to a huge news story.
4. Fresh events reported, anything new or unheard is reported until it becomes old and heard by all.
Definitions
News must be new or fresh or at least have a fresh angle.
News must be presented as something that us not mundane; it must be an event.
The fresh event must be reported to become news.
Production requirements
1. Front and 2nd page of a local newspaper. Website and 2 working links. Poster
2. Blog
3. Evaluation-powerpoint/presentation
2. Blog
3. Evaluation-powerpoint/presentation
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