RESIT - News Stories Research

In my group we all researched different types of news stories, we had a mixture of serious and celebrity news. We thought a mixture would target all our audience especially in the local area. An example of a news story we found was an abduction attempt in Lincolnshire of an 11 year old boy. We included this news story to spread awareness and feel sad for boy's family. We included celebrity news to gain viewers as that's what most of our audience wants to listen to for example charity events, football news.

An example of a news story I will use is shown below, I will use this in our podcast as it is an interesting story listeners will find entertaining.
The headline of the story is Bourne attempted abduction leads to manhunt
Police are hunting a man who tried to force an 11-year-old boy into the back of a black van in a Lincolnshire market town. The attempted abduction happened at about 08:00 while the boy was walking to school along North Road in Bourne. The offender is described as 6ft and white, with short spiked brown hair and a tattoo on his neck. Police officers are warning the public to not let children go out alone. Deputy Inspector Pete Grayson, from Lincolnshire Police, said the boy was very frightened by the incident.

We chose this story as it is an on-going crisis which the people can help with, unlike most of the news stories which are murders and the viewers can’t do anything to help them. The news story is a good story as it informs the viewers what is happening in their local area. We could interview local people about their opinion on the crisis. We will interview using a dictaphone or a microphone as we need a portable device when we’re roaming the area for people to interview. There shouldn’t be any legal and ethical issues with this story.  ,

The news values presented in the story are negativity and unexpectedness.