Online news and Newspapers

Online News

Websites belonging to broadcast news channels such as sky news run in conjunction with the TV side.

Sky News Online offers:
Continuous live streaming of breaking news
Video reports from news bulletins
Radio News bulletins on the hour from Sky news radio.

These websites also provide an audience with the opportunity to interact:
By submitting their opinions via online polls and feedback area
With the presenters with their online blogs. (These online polls are often included in evening new bulletins)
Viewers are also able to submit camera footage that maybe included on the website.
Download Pod casts.


Regional and Local News Websites




Pudsey Today is 1 of 14 local websites for the Leeds area. It is part of the same family as the Pudsey times, Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post newspapers.

The news items featured on the website are provided mainly from local community groups and sports clubs etc.. If somebody summits a story, the author gets to have their name published in the byline. Bigger news items are provided by reporters from the free weekly paper, 'The Pudsey Times' and also from reporter content provided by the 'Yorkshire Post Newspaper'.

The Yorkshire Post website amend stories by their reporters for publishing on the website. A lot of these stories are acquired via the news agency 'Press Association' News Wire. They also get stories from online press offices and via Google news alerts. The Video reports on the website are produced by the reporters from the newspaper who are also trained in filming and editing footage specifically for the website.

Codes and Conventions
Click on the picture below for details of the codes and conventions of online news sites





BBC News
BBC Editorial Guidelines


NEWSPAPERS

Stories for newspapers are gathered mainly via news agency Press association. Local newspapers also recieve stories from the public calling the newsdesk. If these stories are worthwhile they will be followed up and reported on. Reporters for the national newspapers frequently read the regional papers and will often run an extended report that first appeared in a regional newspaper first.

News coverage varies wildly between publications.

There are several different types of newspapers, including free weekly papers (local), Free dailies (Metro), National and regional dailies and Sunday papers. These newspapers fit into two categories - Tabloid and Broadsheet.


Codes and Conventions

Click on the picture below for details of the codes and conventions used in newspapers:



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