1. In this article I will be talking about a serious and sensational story that I have been assigned to do. I
will talk about what certain things that are included in news articles.
In October 4 2013 a 4 year old blonde Romanian girl was found living in a gypsy site with a couple.
The 4 year old girl had blonde hair and bright green eyes which were different from the couple that
she was living with. The couple were a male and female which were dark skinned and both had
black/brown dark hair and brown eyes. This caused major controversy and local authorities to
believe that the child had been kidnapped from her real parents. Over a short period of time this
story has gotten really popular throughout Europe in hope that people would know who her real
parents are. This then made the story a priority and became breaking news all over Europe
including BBC, ITV, Sky, and Channel 4 and so on. The news reached all of the newspaper companies
throughout Europe also, making it headlines for a long period of time. This story caused gypsy camps
to be viewed as dangerous for other people but also caused local police to investigate the camp in
search of other children that might be kidnapped of some sort.
The immediacy of the story was very important due to the fact that the local police wanted to know
who the parents of the 4 year old girl are and return her to them as quickly as possible. Due to the
importance and immediacy of the story other famous missing children cases was raised and gave
their families a sense of hope to find their missing children. An example of this will be Madeline
McCann’s parents have been interviewed to show what they think of this story and what they feel
about it. Other parents of missing children were also interviewed with hope of finding their children
within the gypsy camp. This caused more publicity amongst people within Europe.
The Madeline McCann story was the main follow up storydue to the fact that a suspicion of kidnap
of a 4 year old girl was mentioned. People then assumed that Madeline McCann might be in the
gypsy camp therefore giving her parents hope of finding her within the area.
The story was also on TV and radio all over Europe, with this being on TV and radio this will obviously
include audio clips from news reporters investigating at the scene. Newspaper, TV and radio all had
quotes from insiders who knew what was going on with the situation. These are all good examples
of availability of audio. A lot of quotes were gathered throughout the news story such as “they told
us that they didn’t give her any money, and that they met by accident”. This was required from an
inside source within the gypsy camp.
The story is a human interestdue to the fact that many people are also affected by this problem.
This story gave hope for the parents that have been inflicted by this problem. Other people are
generally interested in story similar to this due to the fact that it isun human to do such a thing, this
will trigger a lot of peoples emotions.