Heart Radio at 10 PM:

Full verbatim of the news bulletin:

1: From globals news room, the owners of a 50 tone car transporter ship which got stuck on the Sand Bank in The Solent say they had to ground it deliberately or it would be capsized it will take several days to re-float the vessel which has 14,000 cars on board.

News Values for story 1^:

Immediacy: The story has happened recently.
Familiarity: The story is geographically close to the reader in the UK.
Amplitude: This story does involve a large number of people because the 14,000 car owners have damaged cars.
Surprise: It is an unusual event for a ship to have sunk.
Negativity: This story is not good news.

2: More than 13,000 people have signed a petition urging Oldham Athletic not to sign Ched Evans. It's understood in an announcement will be made by the club tomorrow.

News Values for story 2^:

Familiarity: The story is geographically close to the reader as Ched Evans was part of Sheffield United which is an English football group.
Amplitude: This is a big event which involves a large number of people (13,000 +) who have signed a petition against Ched Evans.
Predictability: We did expect this to happen because it was unlikely Ched Evans would be singed by Oldham Athletic  after being convicted rapist and serving 2.5 years in prison.
Continuity: The story has been defined as news and is part of a long running story.
Conflict: The story does contain conflict between Ched Evans and (13,000 +) people who signed the petition.
Elite People: The story does contain elite people being Ched Evans.
Personalisation: The story is a human interest story as a teenager was raped by an adult man.
Scandal: The story has provoked moral outrage from the audience because a majority of the public are urging Oldham Athletic not to sign the convicted rapist.  

3: Coastguards have suspended the search for the crew of a cargo ship which overturned off the north east coast of Scotland yesterday. 8 people are missing.

News Values for story 3^:

Immediacy: This story happened the night before it was reported on Hear Radio.
Familiarity: The story is geographically close to the reader in the UK.
Surprise: This is an unexpected event which is breaking news.
Negativity: This story is bad news as 8 crew members are presumed to have died.

4: Three Britain's have been charged with attempting to smuggle cocaine on a flight from Jamaica to the UK. It is alleged that one of the men from Birmingham had 3 pounds of cocaine on him whilst 2 others allegedly had nearly 8 pounds of the drug in their bags.

News Values for story 4^:

Familiarity: This story is geographically close to the reader as the 3 men smuggled the drugs to the UK.
Frequency: The event of drug smuggling does happen often but the quanitity of drugs is unusual. 
Surprise: This is an unexpected event.
Continuity: The story has been defined as news and is part of an ongoing story.
Conflict: The story does contain drama between the authority and 3 men who smuggled in the cocaine to the UK.
Negativity: The story is bad news as drugs are lethal and illegal.

5: and Prince Andrew has returned to the UK after a skiing holiday in Switzerland. Last night Buckingham Palace issued a second statement denying claims by an American woman that she was forced to have sex with him whilst underage.

News Values for story 5^:

Familiarity: This story is geographically close to the reader in the UK.
Surprise: The story is an unusual one because it's an unlikely event for a member of the royal family to be accused of raping someone.
Continuity: This story is part of an ongoing, long running story.
Conflict: The story contains drama between Prince Andrew and the American woman who is accusing him over rape.
Elite People: There is a well known/ celebrity in this news story which is Prince Andrew.
Negativity: This is bad news as  rape is a crime.
Personalisation: This is a human interest story as the American woman was underage when Prince Andrew "raped" the woman.

BBC Radio 2 at 10 PM:

Full verbatim of the news bulletin: 

1: The owners of a huge cargo ship lying stranded in The Solent of the Isle of Wight says she was run aground deliberately to prevent her capsizing. Marine officials say it could take up to a week to re-float The Hoegh Osaka which was carrying nearly 1,500 cars and 25 people when it started listing after leaving Southampton last night. Those onboard were taken to safety.

News Values to do with story 1^:

Immediacy: The story has happened recently as it was reported the day after the night it had happened therefore making it breaking news.
Familiarity: The story is geographically close to the audience in the UK.
Amplitude: This story is a big event because 25 people were at risk of drowning although they were taken to safety and the people/person who own the 1,500 cars are most likely damaged.
Frequency: Recently another boat has sunk but this is a rare event to happen.
Surprise: This is an unexpected event.
Negativity: This is bad news.

2: The 8 crew members of the cargo ship which has sunk of the north east coast of Scotland are presumed to have died. The Cypriote registered Fraser, the cargo ship was spotted in trouble in Peatland Firth near Orkney, yesterday, the search has been called off tonight.

News Values to do with story 2^: 

Immediacy: This story happened the night before it was reported on BBC Radio 2. 
Familiarity: The story is geographically close to the reader in the UK. 
Surprise: This is an unexpected event which is breaking news.
Negativity: This story is bad news as 8 crew members are presumed to have died.

3: More than 16,000 people have signed a petition urging Oldham Athletic not to sign the convicted rapist Ched Evans. The player who's 26 was released from prison in October after serving half of a 5 year sentence. He's always protested his innocence. He's understood the legal and football club have held talks about giving Evans a contract.

News Values to do with story 3^:

Familiarity: The story is geographically close to the reader as Ched Evans was part of Sheffield United which is an English football group.
Amplitude: This is a big event which involves a large number of people (16,000) who have signed a petition against Ched Evans.
Predictability: We did expect this to happen because it was unlikely Ched Evans would be signed by Oldham Athletic after being a convicted rapist and serving 2.5 years in prison.
Continuity: The story has been defined as new and is part of a long running story.
Conflict: The story does contain conflict between Ched Evans and the 16,000 people who signed the petition. 
Elite People: The story does contain elite people being Ched Evans.
Personalisation: The story is a human interest story as a teenager was raped by an adult man.
Scandal: The story has provoked moral outrage from the audience because a majority of the public are urging Oldham Athletic not to sign the convicted rapist.

4: Egypt says archeologists have unearthed the tomb of a previous unknown queen dating back to the Fifth Dynasty of the pharos. The tomb was located by Czech archeologists in an Acropolis south west of Cairo as Warren Bull reports "Egypt antiques minister Mamdouh Danasty, said the tomb was discovered in Abu-Sir which served as a cemetery for the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis. Inside the tomb he says was inscribed the name of the woman, Khentakawess, she's believed to be either the wife or mother of Pharo who reigned around four and a half thousand years ago. The Czech archeologist also found around 30 utensils made of limestone and copper. They say the discover would "help shed light on certain unknown aspects of the Fifth Dynasty, which along with the Fourth Dynasty, witnessed the construction of the first pyramids.

News Values to do with story 4^:

HELP WITH NEWS VALUES

talkSPORT News Bulletin at 10 PM:

Full verbatim of the news bulletin:

1: Rescue teams have suspended there search for 8 missing crew who were on ship which sank off the northern coast of Scotland. The up turned hull of the Cypriote registered cargo boat was spotted in the north sea yesterday. Now 50,000 ton car transporter remains stranded on the southern bank outside Southampton. Engineers are assessing how to move the ship after high water failed to get it to float on The Solent it ran aground last night prompting a major rescue operation to get the crew off the listing vessel.

News Values to do with story 1^: 

Immediacy: The story is breaking news and happened recently.
Familiarity: The story is close to the reader because Scotland is part of the UK and talkSPORT is a national radio station.
Predictability: The reader expected rescue teams to have suspended their search for the 8 missing crew as it is most likely the few people missing are dead.
Personalisation: It is a human interest story as 8 men are most likely dead due to the ship which sank.
Negativity: It is bad news.
Scandal: The story may provoke moral outrage from parts of the audeince due to the lack of concern from rescue teams to stop the search.

2: A woman's being arrested on suspicion of murder after two men were found dead in a house fire in North London. The men one in his 50's, the other thought to be in his 40's was discovered in a house in Islington on Friday. Police says they are holding a 42 year old woman.

News Values to do with story 2^:

Familiarity: The story is geographically close to the audience in North London although this story is not to the UK.
Frequency: The event where an adult gets arrested on suspicion of murder does happen often but it's rare for the sex of the adult to be a woman.
Surprise: This is an unusual and unexpected event.
Conflict: The story contains drama between the woman who is on suspicion for murdering two men.
Negativity: This is bad news.

3: and a gunman has snatched a 3 week old baby after shooting her mother, father and uncle at their home in California. All 3 were taken to a hospital with gunshot wounds and are in critical but stable condition. Police are looking for Eliza Delacruz who weighs 10 pounds and has been missing since Saturday evening.

News Values to do with story 3^:

Immediacy: This story has happened recently as the event happened the night before it was reported as well as the story is breaking news as a baby has been missing.
Surprise: It is an unexpected event for a 3 week old baby to be missing.
Continuity: This story would of been defined as news the day the event occured therefore it is part of an ongoing story.
Conflict: The story contains conflict between the murderer and the people who were shot and kidnapped.
Personalisation: This is a human interest story as the fact the missing person is a 3 week old baby makes the story more sympathetic to adults who have children of their own.
Negativity: This is bad news as 3 people have been shot and are in "critical" condition and a baby is missing.

Introduction of Analysing News Bulletins on 3 Existing National Radio Stations (Different Genre):

I will be listening to 3 different types of national radio stations which play different types of music and the audience intended by each station is different. The reason I will be doing this research is to find out if the news stories will be related to the type of station or if certain stories that appear on all three stations.

I will be focusing on the running order to see what order each story is ranked E.g  (- if it is a rock news story being said on a rock radio station then it will most likely be the first news story released by the station.) I will also be analysing the news values. 

I have chosen Heart London, talkSPORT and BBC Radio 2.

As the most important part of this task was to record all the 3 radio stations at the same time and I knew that it would be very difficult because some of the radio stations don't have play back or they have podcasts and don't include the news. I installed an app called TuneIn Radio Pro on my iPhone to enable me to record two of the radio stations news at 10 PM and listen to BBC Radio 2 on their catch up feature.

Comparing National and Local News - Evaluation:

Whilst reviewing 10 national and 10 local news stories I found both similarities and differences between the two types of news.

5 W's:

Whilst doing this research I found that in national and local news each article usually used the 5 W's near to the beginning of the story. I think this is done to grab the readers attention so they are interested and carry on reading.

For example I have annotated two articles from local and national news found on the BBC website.

National: 

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Local:

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News Values:

I created a chart which shows a summary of how many times each news value came up in the 20 stories I analysed.

Most occurring news values in national news:

-Familiarity

-Amplitude

-Predictability

-Continuity 

-Conflict

-Frequency

-Elite People

-Negativity

Most occurring news values in local news:

-Familiarity
-Surprise

-Conflict

-Negativity

-Predictability

-Frequency

-Amplitude

-In both national and local news the four main dominating news values are familiarity, amplitude, predictability, frequency. 

-Familiarity although important in national news I think it is vital for local news stories to have this news value as the story is usually more of use to the people in the area.

- Amplitude is an important news value but is used in different ways for local and national news. In local news amplitude concerns different communities. In national news amplitude concerns many people in that country.

-I think frequency is more of use in local news because little things such as a robbery in a small area wouldn't be important on national news.

Local News 10 - Environment:

This article is about fish being removed from the Grand Union Canal for restoration work.

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5 W's:

Who: The fish in the canal.

What: The fish are being moved to different parts of the canal before the upgrade can begin.

Where: Aylesbury 

When: N/A

Why: The fish are being moved so new gates can be installed so they are safe.

News Values:

Familiarity: The story is based in Aylesbury which appeals to the people in that area.

Predictability: The reader expects the fish to be removed to allow lock works.

Balance: The story is good news as the animal kingdom is being protected.

Local News 9 - Technology:

This article is about a cyber attack which appeared in the Stoke and Staffordshire section of BBC news.

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5 W's:

Who: Mark Johnson.

What: He has been accused of posting a malicious link which helped create a cyber attack on a government website.

Where: Birmingham.

When: 3rd of November (though the attack happened in 2012.)

Why: It was malcious because it was intended to close down the home office website.

News Values:

Familiarity: The accused is from Stoke on Trent which is why the story will appeal to readers in the area.

Impact: Whilst the story is unlikely to have a profound effect on the readers lives it does contain the news value - impact because it makes people feel threatened because it involves computer hacking.

Surprise: It is an unexpected event.

Conflict: There is conflict between global hacking group Anonymous and the government. There is also conflict between Johnson denying the allegations and the prosecution counsil