You are the news director of a local television station. The city council has just voted to close city parks 3 days a week to save money. Meanwhile, a major celebrity has died. The park story has greater effect on your viewers, but the celebrity death will get bigger ratings? Which do you make your lead story and why? o Your news organization is owned by a massive corporation that also owns an electronics company. It has learned that the refrigerators the electronics company makes are
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Historically, print news has focused on the importance of text and where images have been used, little attention is given to the function of these images in conveying news discourse. However, the relationship between the verbal and the visual deserves further attention. Images have a powerful impact on a viewer’s response towards news and this impact cannot be created by text alone. A critical examination of three recent news events (see appendix) and analysis of the images that they utilise, reveals
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SUBJECT: Evaluation of the new Media Development Authority (MDA) Licencing Framework and Recommendations for future operations As requested by you, on 31 August 2013, this report aims to evaluate the new MDA licensing framework and to present recommendations for future operations to SNews’r’us on changes in its approach to news reporting. With effect from 1 June 2013, MDA has outlined a new licensing framework for online news sites. Under the new framework, online news sites that report a minimum
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case is important to call attention to because it highlights the violation of political and civil rights of the people and it emphasizes the larger issues that the United States are facing. This news story did not only circulate in the United States. It reached different parts of the world with the news going viral through the internet, social media, television channels, and international newspaper headlines. Trayvon Martin, a 17-year old African American teenager, was walking back home from a relative’s
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How News Lifts- or Sinks- Worlds Stock This paper will speak about the changes in consumer demand trends after the crash for two different stock companies as well as the attempt the companies made to make profits from rising consumer demands after the crash. The local news that some of us can do without, while others must have it like a morning cup of coffee can get the world wrapped up in 30 minutes to an hour. We get the good, the bad, the ugly, and let us not forget our local weather
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Leadership Theory Application in a News Team The organization I used to work for, as a news reporter, is News 3 New Mexico production team in KENW TV-3, public broadcasting facility in Portales, New Mexico. KENW offers professional equipment and first-class facilities to students majoring in broadcast production and journalism at Eastern New Mexico University. News 3 New Mexico is a student-produced nightly live newscast, which airs Monday through Wednesday at 5 p.m. Students work there
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News Channel - Argument Essay The business manager mentions about devoting the station's coverage time to weather and local news as before which will eventually help for generating revenues but does not provide valid evidences to refute his statement. The manager also makes some assumptions which are not supported with reasons. This is explained further with the help of the following points. The manager mentions that after the change of coverage by devoting more time to the national news
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Global Village Theory and the News McLuhan (in E. Griffin, 2012) coined the term ‘global village’ to describe how cultures are brought together through technology. He states that electronic media enables us to communicate with everyone, everywhere, whenever we want to and states that closed human systems do not exist in a world where electronic media is the front and centre. McLuhan’s view of electronic technology essentially states that technology has become somewhat of an extension of senses;
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apologize for this unknown accident at this time. It would be best to address them in person. Internal News: Late breaking news has been announced near a northern city in Copia, Chile. Thirty three Chilean men have been trapped in an underground mine about twenty –three hundred feet below the surface. It is not clear on the cause of this incident at the time, but stay tuned to your local new channel for all information regarding to this undetermined incident. If you’re not near a television then
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The “Middleman,” Debunking the Middle Finger The Flipped Bird Mr. Robert Ekas of Clackmas, Oregon, is an American. He becomes angry for being pulled over, and doesn't always agree with those who wear a uniform. His choice of self expression is often the use of his middle finger. In fact, Mr. Ekas came to the attention of the judicial system after he “flipped the bird” at a sheriff's car in 2007. After being issued a traffic citation for disorderly conduct from the police officer he insulted;
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