News Format

News format sums up each special forms that news company use in order to tell a story to its audience. There are many different ways in which stories are delivered, this is done to gain the attention of the audience. 

Bulletin

Bulletin can be seen as a short summary of a short format of news, it announces concerning on-going news story, a brief report especially an official statement issued for immediate publication or broadcast. The bulletin will contain audio, interviews, live cross interviews with other people and two way interviews. A Bulletin duration can last up to 4 minutes long instead of just having the news reader speaking all the way throughout to keep readers interest it is good to include people’s opinions, wraps and voicers. For example; The News of the World phone hacking scandal was a put as a news bulletin because it was an on-going news story which gained an international press as it was shocking that such a reliable news company could be found guilty of such case. 

Headlines

Headlines appears in every news story, this highlights the most important stories that will spoke on in more details through the programme. The headlines can be at least 5 news stories that concern the country or nation most, this could stories based on events that have panned in the last 24hrs. This is presented at the start of a new programme by the presenter giving a brief synopsis on what will be feature throughout the programme/ news report. For example BBC breakfast have their first headlines of the day in the morning at 6 am, these stories vary from crime to light-hearted stories, using the 5W’s (Who, What, Where, Why, When and How) giving the basic facts of each story, grabbing the audience attention. 

News programme

A news programme has a range of different techniques to make the programme entertaining to listen to but to still get the news across to the public. The main focal point of a news programme is to report of current affairs. News is typically reported in a series of individual stories that are presented by one or more anchors. A news program can include live or recorded interviews by field reporters, expert opinions, opinion poll results, and occasional editorial content. An example will be World at one which is aired on BBC Radio 4, the programme World one is long-running lunchtime news and current affairs programme, which is currently broadcast at 1.00 pm to 1.45 pm from Monday to Friday. The programme describes itself as "Britain's leading political programme. The programme is presenter by Martha Kearney, and Mark Mardell. Other presenter are also feature, varying of the different type of stories spoken on. Another news programme is “The world tonight” also a current affairs radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4, every weekday evening, which started out as an extension of the 10pm news. It features news, analysis and comment on domestic and world issues. Ritula Shah is currently the main presenter, usually presenting the first three days of the week.

Copy only

Copy only involves a presenter reading a story without including any audio tell the story is more depth, such as actuality not being present. This mainly occurs when the story is not as important as other stories which the audience needs more knowledge and concerns them more. The presenter will give a brief overview of the story and move on to a more pressing issue. For example the story could be based on a “dog stuck in a bin”, the story will not come along with any interview or other audio clip to shed more light on it, the presenter will briefly just mention this piece of information and close it off. On the Other a Sport bulletin will crucial feature short audio clips of commentary corning the game, as sport is a genre that people are eager to hear more on, and audio clips reinforces the urge to get people to sit and listen attentively to what the presenter is saying. 

Voicers

Voicers is having a change of different reporters sharing more fact of a specific subject. The main reporter gives some information/Facts about a news story, than goes to another reporter with even more facts on the story giving the audience a variety of facts to rely on. By using two different voices it keeps the listeners interested and adds a break up from just the one voice, it also allows more facts to be included.  

Wrap 

Wrap is when a pre-recorded report of a presenter voice at the beginning and end of the programme with actuality played in between. A script and an audio clip is a form of a radio wrap. The clip is fitted in the middle of the script. The duration of a wrap can differ, depending on the subject matter and the target audience aimed for. A hard news, complicated story could make the wrap last for 50 minutes long, while a wrap on station such as BBC radio one will be often more shorter as they want to keep their target audience interested, which are young people. 

Two ways 

A two way is a form of an interview conducted by a presenter based in a studio with a reporter outside at a location of where the story is based on or are standing in front of a location associated with the event. This often seen in broadcast news. This type of interview is often used when a reporter on location isn't sending an edited report for the news. For example a two way interview could be a reporter at witnessed the scene of the strike of junior doctors protesting in front of NHS hospitals, the report would state facts on what they have seen while there out there, rather than a report which feature interviews and piece to cameras, always edited. Two ways are mostly raw footages of the reporter having the interview with the presenter in the studio. This can be beneficial for the audience as they can see for themselves/ witness that this is real footages as the reporter is presently at the scene speaking live. It adds actuality to the story.

Copy with Audio

Copy with audio occurs when a news reader reads the story with the facts and with a piece audio clips that links in with the story, the audio could be an interview with a professional who knows the subject well enough or a vox-pop with member of the public, gaining a variety of opinions of the subject. By adding the audio clips allows the audience to receive more information across and give more depth to the story.

Live Cross

Live cross often occurs in news reports, this is done when a reporter from the studio crosses live with another reporter located at the actually the scene where an event has taken place or is currently taking place. This provides the audience with factual visual conformation that the story being reported on is true.  For example; there was a news report on going case of Oscar Pistorious where he kept having to go to court because of the murder case he was accused of, while the presenterin the BBC studio reports about news, she then crosses live other to another report live at the location where the court case was taking place giving the viewers some more insight information of what is currently happening concerning the case.

Package

A radio package focuses on one single story, pre-recorded reports featuring interviews and sound effects - will grab the listener's attention and tell the story in an entertaining and creative way. This way the listeners can gain a variety of opinions. The duration of a radio package can vary; some can be in more depth than others, sorely depending on the subject matter. A radio package contains different technical aspects which goal is to grab the listeners, Sound effect is a crucial technique because unlike TV radio packages are does not provide any visual images for the audience, this allows the producer to tell there subject in a more define way, allowing the audience to have a vivid imagine to what the presenter is talking about, for example; if the subject was based on education than here will more likely feature sound effects of classroom with students chatting and the teacher teaching a lesson, chairs being pushed around and pencils coming to contact with a paper.for example BBC1 Newsbeat tend to have a alot radio packages concern young people as this is there target audience. this could subjects such as education or any social media that is trending.