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Analyses of two news stories and discuss the ethics involved

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This document discusses two news stories - one about celebrity privacy and the other being sensational and hard-hitting. It analyzes the ethics involved in each story. Nowadays, social media allows news to spread very quickly as videos and photos can be instantly posted. The fastest ways to access news are social media, radio, TV, and then newspapers. The two stories being analyzed are from newspaper articles so there would be no audio component. Different media outlets, like tabloids versus broadsheets or commercial radio versus BBC, have different priorities and standards in terms of the types of stories they cover and how sensationalized the reporting is.

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Analyses of two news stories and discuss the ethics involved: Celebrity privacy I have been asked to write an essay writing two analysiss for two different news stories. The first article is about celebrity privacy and the second one is a sensational and hard hitting. When it comes to story priority it depends what the news outlets decide. Most news outlets would use hard news as their main priority, whereas tabloid newspapers and commercial radio stations that are aimed at teenagers would use celebrity news as their main priority. In terms of immediacy, whether its celebrity news or hard hitting news, the quickest way we would find news out nowadays would be over social networks. For example when the tsunami hit Thailand in 2004 the ways of people getting the information across was by sending videos and photos over to news outlets. Now, people can send videos and photos to news outlets and they will post them straight to their twitter/Facebook pages. Whereas in the past they would have had to send out a news reporter and crew to go and film the report. As you can see the sky news twitter page are doing regular posts with the stories that are going on around the world. As the page is verified we can trust this to be a reliable source. The second quickest way to get news would be on the radio. This is because they have regular news announcements. Also because they can change their schedule and stop whatever they are talking
about to announce the news. After the radio, TV is the next most popular way of getting news. This is because the TV can switch and announce some breaking news if its big enough. And finally the final way to get news the quickest would be to read the newspaper. This is because readers have to wait for the next day to find out the breaking news. The two news stories I am covering are from newspaper articles therefor there isnt any availability of audio. But if the stories were to be covered on the TV or radio then it would all be audio. Teams would have to go out and record interviews and news reports. Each media outlet has its own news room policy. For example radio stations like Key103 and Capital would write news about celebrities whereas radio BBC 2 would report the hard news and sensational stories. The tabloids write the more sensational headlines, because they want the ratings, even if the stories arent always what you think the headlines are. Whereas broadsheets write the truth. Human interest stories are stories that make you feel good. They are stories that have a happy ending, we could class the missing girl story as a human interest because it sort of has a happy ending. Public interest agenda is the general publics opinion.

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Analyses of two news stories and discuss the ethics involved

  • 1. Analyses of two news stories and discuss the ethics involved: Celebrity privacy I have been asked to write an essay writing two analysiss for two different news stories. The first article is about celebrity privacy and the second one is a sensational and hard hitting. When it comes to story priority it depends what the news outlets decide. Most news outlets would use hard news as their main priority, whereas tabloid newspapers and commercial radio stations that are aimed at teenagers would use celebrity news as their main priority. In terms of immediacy, whether its celebrity news or hard hitting news, the quickest way we would find news out nowadays would be over social networks. For example when the tsunami hit Thailand in 2004 the ways of people getting the information across was by sending videos and photos over to news outlets. Now, people can send videos and photos to news outlets and they will post them straight to their twitter/Facebook pages. Whereas in the past they would have had to send out a news reporter and crew to go and film the report. As you can see the sky news twitter page are doing regular posts with the stories that are going on around the world. As the page is verified we can trust this to be a reliable source. The second quickest way to get news would be on the radio. This is because they have regular news announcements. Also because they can change their schedule and stop whatever they are talking
  • 2. about to announce the news. After the radio, TV is the next most popular way of getting news. This is because the TV can switch and announce some breaking news if its big enough. And finally the final way to get news the quickest would be to read the newspaper. This is because readers have to wait for the next day to find out the breaking news. The two news stories I am covering are from newspaper articles therefor there isnt any availability of audio. But if the stories were to be covered on the TV or radio then it would all be audio. Teams would have to go out and record interviews and news reports. Each media outlet has its own news room policy. For example radio stations like Key103 and Capital would write news about celebrities whereas radio BBC 2 would report the hard news and sensational stories. The tabloids write the more sensational headlines, because they want the ratings, even if the stories arent always what you think the headlines are. Whereas broadsheets write the truth. Human interest stories are stories that make you feel good. They are stories that have a happy ending, we could class the missing girl story as a human interest because it sort of has a happy ending. Public interest agenda is the general publics opinion.