Case Study. Election

Testing what you've learned...

1) What is the angle of a news story? Give an example to explain your answer. There can be many different angles to a news story such as British angle by the BBC News.

2) What is the difference between tabloid and broadsheet news coverage? A tabloid newspaper is less serious and the stories are usually revolved around sports and celebrities. A broadsheet news is more serious and more about politics.

3) What would be an example of a tabloid-style TV news programme? An example is the female football that was spoken about.

4) What would be an example of a broadsheet-style TV news programme? The Scottish international election.

5) What is the difference between international, national, regional and local news coverage
International is world wide, national is wide in the UK, regional is places such as London, Yorkshire and Scotland. Local news is to do with incidents that occur in the area.

Answer the questions on the election coverage clips...

BBC News election story - via YouTube

1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell? It's national because elections that occur Scotland are irrelevant to other countries such as Germany which means it cannot be international.

2) What angle does the report take on the story? It takes a British angle.

3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage? This is broadsheet-style coverage.

4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why? The audience would be more of the 18-35 age range because political stories wouldn't interest the younger ages due to the fact they don't feel like the are involved in the part of the news and when voting takes place they wouldn't be associated with it.


Sky News election story not available online - use your notes

1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell? National because it's an election in one country.

2) What angle does the report take on the story? Broadsheet-style angle.

3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage? It's broadsheet-style angle because is involves serious information and stories to do with politics.

4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why? Those who are able to vote would be most likely to watch this type of TV News programme or even if they are interested in news to do with politics so usually over 18.


STV (Scottish) coverage of the election story

1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell? National, because other countries don't care about elections in different countries so this also can't be international.

2) What angle does the report take on the story? British angle.

3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage? The coverage is broadsheet style.

4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why? A lot like previous elections may not interest the younger ages so this would usually revolve around the age range of 18-35.


Channel 4 News coverage of the election story.

1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell? National and regional. I can tell because is an election again.

2) What angle does the report take on the story? Political angle

3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage? This is more of both tabloid and broadsheet.

4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why? I think even though they can't vote the ages would be young such as 15-35 due to presentation of channel 4 itself as a news programme.