Wednesday, 6 May 2015


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. An example to explain the angle of a news story is who Scotland show vote for as prime minister. The news story angle will focus on Scottish people who are voting.

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

3) What would be an example of a tabloid-style TV News programme?
 - Sky News.

4) What would be an example of a broadsheet-style News TV Programme?
 - BBC News.

5) What is the difference between international, national, regional, and local news coverage?
 - International news is worldwide therefore all countries know about the news?
 - National news is news in the UK.
 - Regional news is news in places like London, Yorkshire and Scotland.
 - Local news is news that is local to your area. For example, West London, Leeds, Edinburgh.

Questions about the BBC News election story?

1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell?
 - This is national story as they mention the 'UK' and 'Scotland' in the story. Also, this election is for the prime minister of the UK not another international country.

2) What angle does the report take on the story?
 - BBC shows more of the conservative party as they are similar.

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

4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV News programme? Why?
 - I think people who would read the broadsheet news paper such as The Guardian as they cover the same kind of stories as they are the same type.

Questions about the Sky News election story

1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell?
 - This is a national story as it is a story that only people in the UK are interested in as it determines their future. Also this election is for the prime minister of the UK not another international country.

2) What angle does the report take on the story?
 - It shows that the Scottish are dominating the other parties.

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

4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV News programme? Why?
 - I think people who would read a tabloid news paper such as The Sun as they cover the same kind of stories as they are the same type coverage.

Questions about STV Scottish coverage of the election story.

1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell?
 - This also is a national story as most of it is talking about the Scottish therefore it is a national story because Scotland is in the UK.

2) What angle does the report take on the story?
 - The views of people living in Scotland.

3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage?
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4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV News programme?Why?
 - I think most of the Scottish population would watch this as their country is a part of the story.

Questions about Channel 4 News coverage of the election story.

1) Is this international, national, regional or local? How can you tell?
 - This is national news because only people in the UK will be interested as this election will determine the prime minister of the UK.

2) What angle does the report take on the story?
 - Channel 4 has an angle on all parties.

3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage?
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4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV News programme? Why?
 - Channel 4 is most likely going to be viewed by 16-32 adults or ABC1 adults.

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