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Qualification Level 3 ExtendedDiploma in Creative Media Production
Unit number and title
DB15
Unit 41 News Production for Radio (Partial)
Start date 10/02/2015
Deadline 26/02/2015
Assessor name Damen BRAMWELL
Assignment title DB15 Constraints on radio news production
Scenario
The news editor of Key 103 has asked for a guide on news values and current attitudes towards ethics and morals in journalism
You will continue with your previous blog on news production with further blog posts on;
1. Legal and Regulatory Constraints
2. Ethics and News Values
Tasks Grading Criteria Mapping
Legal and regulatory constraints:
1. Using the OFCOM broadcasting code and the BBC Editorial guidelines where appropriate,
You will critically evaluate the constraints on radio news production with comprehensive
reference to legal and regulatory issues in regards to;
 handling of stories involving minors;
 contempt of court;
 libel and defamation;
 coverage of elections;
 Official Secrets Act;
Ethics and News Values
2. You must write an analysis of two news stories and critically evaluate the ethics involved
in relation to constraints on news producers:
 serious and sensational stories;
 invasion of privacy;
 public interest
In analysing the case studies you must make mention of;
 story priority (national and local, domestic and foreign);
 immediacy;
 follow-up angles;
 availability of audio;
 newsroom policy;
 human interest;
 public interest agenda
Unit 41
AO 41.2 Understand the
constraints on radio news
production
(P41.2, ,M41.2, D41.2)

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Grading Criteria:
Unit 41 News Productionfor Radio (Level 3)
P41.2 learners will describe the
constraints on radio news
production with reference to legal
and regulatory issues, ethics and
news values
M41.2 learners will explain the
constraints on radio news
production with detailed
reference to legal and regulatory
issues, ethics and news values
and with reference to detailed
illustrative examples
D41.2 learners will critically
evaluate the constraints on radio
news production with
comprehensive reference to
legal and regulatory issues,
ethics and news values, with
supporting arguments and
elucidated examples
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Assessor Damen BRAMWELL
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