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| Media Studies Revision: Television
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| TV News - Terminology |
Anchor - Studio-based
presenter of the show, who holds it all together
Bias
- Lack of objectivity
Chequebook
journalism - Practice of paying individuals for
their exclusive story, e.g. the victim of a kidnapping
Coverage - Footage
and reporting available to a newscast on a particular story at any
given time
Digital news services
- News that reaches a segmented audience through cable subscriptions
and broadband Internet
Embedded
reporter - (Neologism from the Iraq war) a reporter
embedded into a military unit, exposed to the same risks as them,
and supposedly able to report from the front line, unmediated.
Editor - Person
in charge of a news segment - a chief editor will be in charge (i.e.
responsible for if anything should be or go wrong) the whole bulletin
ENG - Electronic
News Gathering - the process of sending sound and images down a
wire from a field location, rather than physically bringing a tape
back to the studio
FCC
- Federal Communications Commission - US body responsible for regulating
the news
Feed
- Communication of a stream of images and/or sound between a situation
and a studio via a news truck. May often be live
Footage
- The tape available (by the foot) of a news event. PLEASE NOTE
THERE IS NO SUCH WORD AS FOOTAGES
Hard
news - Current, timely news which must be reported
there and then. Usually to do with politics. Most news organisations
will report the same hard news
Impartiality
- A legal requirement that news organisations in the UK present
a balance of political views, over time and within an individual
newscast.
Leak
- An unauthorised (supposedly) release of confidential information
to a journalist.
Ownership
- A big issue when considering the bias of news organisations and
the free flow of information to the public. Issues of concentration,
cross media ownership, conglomeration and globalisation are all
explored further here.
News Agency – (e.g. Reuters, AP,) Providers of footage and
information to other news organisations. Sometimes known as a wire
service
News Agenda
- A list, drawn up by the editor, of stories that will be followed
that day
News Language
- News language is very formal, but often contains jargon specific
to an individual or ongoing story. News language can be responsible
for many neologisms (think of those that entered the language in
the Iraq War) and this BBC site (e-cyclopaedia) keeps you up to
date with words of the year.
News
Values - Factors that denote how valuable a story
might be to an audience, thus deciding its position in a news bulletin
OB (outside broadcast)
- Occurs when a satellite/news truck is set up to broadcast directly
from a news event, which may be of a sporting nature
Rolling
news - 24 hour news broadcasting, e.g. BBC World,
CNN
Running Order
- Order of stories in a bulletin decided on by the editor according
to their news values, and to make the news bulletin competitive
with others.
Soft News
- General or human interest story, often can be run without time
pressures (i.e. when the news organisation has space). Sometimes
referred to as feature news. Much more editorial choice is exercised
over soft than hard news.
Sound
bite - A short but complete statement that provides
an emphatic point of view from an interviewee. Some politicians
are very practised in the art of soundbites, as it is a good way
of getting your views across on TV - no long, complex explanations
required.
Spin-doctor
- Someone whose job it is to represent an individual or a series
of government policies in the news in the best possible light. Tony
Blair has been much criticised for the use of spin-doctors.
Tabloid - Populist
reporting which uses sensationalist angles and may not be as rigorous
as it could be when it comes to fact checking
Vox
pop - Public opinion as expressed by random interviewees
'in the street'
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