The main part of my radio show is a news bulletin, so I did lots of research into the 5Ws, news values and the ways that news is presented online, in newspapers and on the radio, so that when I created my news stories, they were as authentic as possible.
Research into News Values
Research into the 5Ws
I analysed a number of news stories online for both local and national news to see the similarities and differences. This was important because I wanted my news stories to reflect the conventions I found in local news as my station is broadcasting to the London area.
Local News Story - Entertainment
National News Story - Entertainment
Comparing Local and National News
I then listened to a number of news bulletins on different radio stations (both local and national) to see if the news stories changed depending on the genre of station and the target audience - my findings are below. This helped me when scripting my own stories and deciding what order the stories should appear in.
News Bulletin - Absolute Radio
News Bulletin - Radio 2
Comparing News Bulletins on Local Radio
I also researched the other elements that are found in news bulletins, such as voxpops, archive clips, outside broadcasts, specialist reporters (though these seem to appear much less frequently on local news than they do on national news, and therefore seem a strange inclusion in the brief) and soundbites, so that I could include them across my stories.
Below are the voxpops from my story about an explosion at a nuclear power plant. The voxpops are of people being interviewed in Borough Market about how they feel about the situation. I scripted them but encouraged my actors to ad-lib and put in pauses so that they sounded as unrehearsed as possible (just as they would in a real radio show).
Research into Voxpops and other Features found in News Bulletins
Accompanying my news stories I also included soundbites (one of which was mixed to sound as if it was on a phone), a press conference and outside broadcasts (one of a police spokesman outside giving a soundbite and one of the specialist reporter at Borough Market).
Here is my complete news bulletin after mixing - as you can hear it includes all of the elements that I noticed when researching existing news bulletins from real radio stations.
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