Introduction to News

I watched BBC News at ten 10/04/2016 airing at 10PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b076zsm1/bbc-news-at-ten-10042016

This news broadcast started with a roundup of some of the stories that was going to be covered in the program and then went on to show the title video and then went straight into their first story of the program. The first story is usually the biggest story of the day and spends the most time on screen going over every part of the story in-depth. The first story is also usually relevant to the country it is being broadcasted from and the going on to other stories from around the world. the second story was a story from India and was also a big story meaning it goes second after the broadcaster country news. The story's carry on from there becoming less and less important and get less screen time to the main two/three stories. Near the end it has a sports round up and goes through the sport quickly as a summary. It then finishes with a lighter more upbeat story to leave you feeling happier, in this case it was about the royals William and Kate visiting people. The intro/title video was a simple tune with a pan of the BBC studio followed by and animation of the logo. This is use to show that it is the start of the broadcast and like most program opens the program with it. 

The news broadcast I watch had the news presenter Mishal Husain who is a female British presenter who currently presents for the BBC on many types of their news broadcasts and is 43 years old. the role of a news presenter is to read the news story's and give all of the information on the story, not only do they have to read the story giving a professional and in control attitude they also have the director in their ears shouting and telling them what to do and to change the order of this on the spot and to improvise when this don’t go to plan. To be a newsreader you must be able to handle pressure better than everyone and need to be able to improvise on the spot if something with the story fails and you need to move on still keeping a clam exterior.

News ordering is a process that editors go though to pick which are the most important stories of the day and put them into order of relevance and interest. The story likely to be shown first is a lead story and is sometimes referred to as the lead. It is normally the lead if it is the biggest story of the day or has the most relevance. The rest of the stories start to appear in order of interest and relevance. The story’s can range to anything as long as it is news worthy and then finishes on the "and finally" which is a story to end on normally containing something light-hearted and fun to finish on a happy note. The ability to act and think clearly in the news is as it is live things can change quickly and all of a sudden you can’t use your lead story mean you have to think on your feet to try and save the broadcast from being a mess and replace things as quick as possible. The term slow news day is as some days their isn’t anything crazy going on and there isn’t much to report and is usually filled with low interest story’s to fill time.  

In my broadcast there was a story about a fireworks display in Southern India that went horribly wrong causing around one hundred deaths as the palace they were in collapsed. The Indian people were waiting in a massive queue outside the hospital to find out if their loved ones were in there being treated. The people involved were citizen of the Indian community. The people featured in the story were survivors and were just happy to be alive however none of the families of the dead were featured as they most likely didn’t want a camera shoved in their faces. I the background of one shot of the queue you can see people unhappy and looking distressed with the events. I felt that it was a sad story containing a massive amount of casualties and could have been avoided. The story was narrated throughout apart from one scene of a presenter explaining what the people are doing and how they feel. The narrator gives a clear idea of what the story is about.

In the news there can be bias, although not on purpose stories can be influenced by many different things/people such as interviewers, writers, photographers, anchors, producers, and editors. It isn't the end of the world that even the news is bias but you do have to aware of the different reasons why its bias when consuming information off of the news. 
The first way it could become bias is the editor choosing to reword information or get rid of information completely to get a different response from viewers. This can be an issue as the editors are completely allowed to change what they want out of the information that they have and can be misleading if the editor changes things to the story. This could be misleading as the rewording could change the story dramatically as if a politician was getting booed and an editor liked that politician they would change it to be the audience was loud at the event rather than booed or he could remove the audiences reaction which would change the public perception of that politician The only way to spot this is if you read the same story form a different news provider and compare the two. 
The next way that the news could be bias is the placement for the story as all news puts the most important stories first and then goes down in importance until the end which could influence someone to think its not important as its at the end of the program which could be an issue as something serious could get overlooked as nothing because it wasn't the first story of the day. 
The next way the news could be bias is by bias headlines which is headlines printed really big with bold writing to give the effect of important and exciting when in reality could be boring which means this could lead the public to not trust the news which could lead to disaster when it is important, kind of like the boy who called wolf effect which everyone stop listening to until it was really important and they didn't believe him anymore and this could happen with the news.
The next way the news could be bias is with certain pictures of people. This is the images the news decides to use when presenting the news when the want to praise the individual they will use a good picture of them with a flattering angle however when they want the individual to look bad they will use a bad picture of them and an unflattering angle to make them look bad. This can massively change how the public views that person as they don't know these people personal and this is the only way you will see them so if the news uses bad pictures you will subconsciously not like that person. This could the reputation of people which in turn could ruin there life so it can really change your view on someone if thew news uses a bad picture.
The next way the news could be bias is by using certain titles that will paint a certain person in a different way, for example have the title of ex-con which means you have been to prison and could have been something that happened years ago for something stupid that that person no longer partakes in anymore. This can change the way people are viewed by the public in a negative and positive ways however is up to the creators of the news to decide what the public thinks of that person. This can also be an issue as different country's and clotures have different views on certain person meaning that not everyone will agree with the news and can paint certain groups of people badly when they are not.