INTRODUCTION TO TV NEWS GATHERING

• What is News Gathering• News Categories• News Sources• News Worthiness• Covering a News Story• Information GateKeeping

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What Is News Gathering?

News gathering is the process of creating a story, from finding sources and facts to coming up with a story angle.

Different types of news stories have different reporting processes

NEWS Categories

Hard News

Politics

Economy

Foreign Affairs

Disasters

Soft News

Human Interest

Entertainment

Sport

Investigative reports

It gives a significant information about matters of public importance

NEWS SOURCES

News Agencies Own Correspondents Press releases Press Conferences (PR) Companies The Monarchy & Parliament Anniversary Stories Court cases or Trials . Newspapers, Twitter etc

News Sources

News Worthiness

What is news worthiness?

Newsworthiness is the term we use to describe whether or not a topic is interesting enough for people to want to know about it.

Factors of News Worthiness

Impact/Consequence

Timeliness

Prominence

Proximity

 

The Novelty/Oddity

Conflict/Suspense

Drama

Human Interest

The importance, or consequence of an event the greater the consequence, and the larger the number of people for

whom an event is important the greater the newsworthiness.

 

Impact/Consequence

The more recent, the more newsworthy. In some cases, timeliness is relative.

 

Timeliness

Occurrences featuring well-know

individuals or institutions are newsworthy.

Prominence:

Closeness of the occurrence to the audience may be gauged either geographically – close by events,

 

Proximity

The firsts, and the unusual, or unexpected attracts attention.

 

The Novelty/Oddity

Conflict/Suspense

Man vs. MachineMan vs. Woman

Nation vs. Nation

Man vs. Nature

Stories with mystery, suspense or heightened emotion, are considered to be more dramatic than stories that lack this feature.

Dramatic

Those stories that have more of an entertainment factor versus any of the above - not that some of the other news values cannot have an entertainment value.

Human Interest

Covering A News Story

LIVE Broadcast

News Report

Editing

Story Boarding

Information

Gathering

TV NEWS REPORT

Information Gathering

◦ Interviews

◦ Observation

◦ Background research

TV NEWS REPORT

Story boarding and Scripting

TV NEWS REPORT

Editing

TV NEWS REPORT

Package Delivery to TV stations

TV NEWS REPORT

 Is a process by which information is filtered to the public by the media

Or The activity of controlling and limiting

general access to something

GateKeeping

Few people are shaping the news stories that are reported daily to millions of audience

Everyone involved in the creation of TV news acts as a gatekeeper in some way

GateKeepers

Ideology

Factors Effecting on GateKeeping

Policies

Factors Effecting on GateKeeping

Social values

Factors Effecting on GateKeeping

Personal feelings

Factors Effecting on GateKeeping

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