The document is a radio news broadcast from the BBC that discusses three news headlines: 1) A bombing in New Jersey that killed 29 people 2) The US admitting that air strikes may have mistakenly killed Syrian government troops 3) A competitor dying in a bike crash at the Rio Paralympics The broadcast analyzes these stories using various news values like immediacy, familiarity, amplitude, frequency, unambiguity, predictability, personalization, negativity, exclusivity, and balance. It determines that the New Jersey bombing would be the most important story to lead with due to its immediacy, amplitude, and negativity.

1. BBC; News and Papers
18/09/2016
(radio)
Mahfuza

2. • International news comes first, as the most important: the US
bombing in New Jersey.
• The US have expressed regret after admitting jets might have
mistakenly killed Syrian government troops.
• Competitor died in the Rio Paralympics after crashing in bike race.

3. Immediacy
Has it happened recently? Is it new?
• Yes the explosion in New Jersey happened on the day of the radio
broadcast, possible an hour or 2 before the broadcast went live.
• The other two headlines may be recent and new but it isn’t as
attention-grabbing or serious as the explosion in New Jersey.
• I would use immediacy in my radio broadcast to present the most up-
to-date and latest news.

4. Familiarity
Does is mean something to us where we live? Can we relate to it?
• Travellers who want to travel to the US might want to be warned about the
explosion, or if they have relatives there then they might want to know if
they are safe or not.
• People who care with their human interest about the US killing the Syrian
government troops might want to take action for it and help Syrians.
• However, overall the headlines/stories are international and do not relate
to us.
• I could use familiarity in my radio news broadcast for local news, as it
would definitely affect the people who live in the area that would be
broadcasting it to. For example, the whole of Bow Road closed because of
a car accident.

5. Amplitude
Is it a big event? Does it involve many people?
• It is very big as the US is a big country and has a huge population. It
involves a few number of people because 29 people were killed from
the explosion.
• However the topic about the Rio Paralympian doesn’t affect much
people because it isn’t as big of an event like the explosion. Also, not
many people are involved in it.
• The reports that I would include in my broadcast would be eventful
and include a high number of people involved.

6. Frequency
Does this happen regularly?
• No, none of these events happen regularly. They are all
individualistic, recent and possibly a one-off news story.

7. Unambiguity
Is it clear? Are the results affective?
• The statistics about how many people died from the explosion is
effective because it shows how much of a power the explosion had in
such a big country.
• Although the Paralympian who died might have been affective, it
wouldn’t have been affected worldwide and is not as big of a news
than this is.
• I would use ‘results’ and statistics in my radio news broadcast to
shock my target audience. For example, “60 people killed at a
shooting near the parliament” would be shocking to an audience.

8. Predictability
Is it predictable? Do we expect it to happen?
• We would not expect any of these news headings to come up, unless we
heard it through other social media aspects such as Whatsapp messaging,
or even if a friend told us about the recent news before it is broadcasted on
TV or radio.
• We would still expect the news story to be there in the evening and have
updates the following day.
Surprise:
• They are all rare and unexpected events, except for the Paralympian who
died because at least 1 Olympian is severely injured/dies at every Olympic /
Paralympic game.

9. Personalisation
Is it a human interest story?
• The second headline about the US killing Syrian government troops
could be a human interest story because people would be interested
to find out if it really was a “mistake”, or if the US did it on purpose.
• Additionally, the story about the Paralympian would be a human
interest story because people would feel sympathy for the athlete.
He’s disabled and died during what he wanted to do the most. People
would feel emotional and sad that he died.
• If I were to use human interest stores in my radio news broadcast
then it wouldn’t be the 1st or 2nd headline that I put it in, simply
because it wouldn’t be as important as the first 2 headlines.

10. Negativity
Is it bad news?
• All the headlines of this broadcast were of bad news. However, bad
news is good news for journalists. This means that journalists can
write more about it easily and get more of a mass audience.
• I would use negativity in my radio news broadcast because it makes
people worried and concerned, which means that they will have to
listen the broadcast/article that I’m talking about.

11. Exclusivity and Balance
Exclusivity:
Is it the only newspaper/radio broadcaster that has this story?
• No, it’s pretty much everywhere.
Balance:
Is it being used to counterbalance other stories?
• No, there is no counterbalancing in this radio news broadcast.

12. Sources used:
• http://www.slideshare.net/asassin14/news-values-media
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07vjwx5#play (the radio news
broadcast).