Case Study 3

1) What is the angle of a news story? Give an example to explain your answer.
 The news angle is the perspective that the news provider takes on a certain event. Changing the angle can significantly alter the way a news story is reported. 

2) What is the difference between tabloid and broadsheet news coverage?
Tabloid news is less serious and informal content, focusing on celebrities, sports and crime stories. Broadsheet is serious news, politics, economics and international news. 

3) What would be an example of a tabloid-style TV news programme?
Sky news is an example as it shows less serious and informal.

4) What would be an example of a broadsheet-style TV news programme?
Channel 4 news as they go into a lot of detail when it comes to important stories for example when the migrants drowned in the Mediterranean sea channel spent 14 minutes talking about. 

5) What is the difference between international, national, regional and local news coverage?
International: World News
National: UK-Wide news
Regional: London/ Yorkshire/ Scotland 
Local: West London/ Leeds/ Edinburgh 

BBC News election story
1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell?
This is a national news. I know this is a national news because it is politics and has views about what David Cameron and Ed Miliband were going to do.

2) What angle does the report take on the story?
In this news stories they have a strong angle towards what they will do for the UK. Besides this they give equal sides to the election as they show some of what David Cameron has to say and also what Ed Miliband has to say which is very important.
3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage?
This news story is more broadsheet because it is formal and has basic news to what a class of AB would understand. It is also a very formal story.

4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why?
The type of audience I would expect to watch this type of TV news programme are professionals and class of AB.

Sky News election story

1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell?
This is a national news story because it is politics and they're only talking about Britain. 

2) What angle does the report take on the story?
This story gives an angle of a more conservative point of view.

3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage?
This is a more tabloid coverage of the story.

4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why?
 I would expect an older audience in the age range of 16 to 40+ to watch this news programme because it is a traditional news story based on voting and elections which appeals to an older audience and what they want their country to be like.

STV coverage of the election story

1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell?
This is an international story as it is abased on what Scotland are going to do and also what the mp's of London are going to do too regarding the election.

2) What angle does the report take on the story?
The report takes on the story from a regional angle

3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage?
This is more tabloid style coverage because it is informal whilst presenting the story and the news mainly consists of interviews with the Scottish party.

4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why
I would expect an older audience in the age range of 16 to 40+ to watch this news programme because it is a traditional news story based on voting and elections which appeals to an older audience and what they want their country to be like.

Channel 4 News coverage of the election story.

1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell?
This is a national news story because it covers all of the parties and gives them equal coverage

2) What angle does the report take on the story?
The report takes on the story from a national angle.

3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage?
This is a more tabloid style coverage because it is formal but modernly presented and is not traditional like BBC news.

4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why?
The kind of audience this type of TV News programme expect to appeal to are:
18-45 year olds - as you can vote at that age.