News: What is it?

• Information
• Learning
• Important events
• Formal or informal - For example the 10 o'clock news. Informal - This Morning, Celebrity news, MTV news. Why do people show news in an informal way? The demographic of the channel is younger
• Television, News Papers, Radio, Family members, Internet. 
• Dull
• Gossip
• Knowledge 
• Factual information 
• Accessible everywhere - lots of different ways that you can consume it

Schools news story becomes news if:

It can affect you this is why it's important. Relevant or affect you. They are creating an element of panic. 

Nuclear why is this news:

• Cause they are a big company. 
• Got taken money off of them. (9 billion) 
• It's news cause it's about money. Outrage. 
• Nuclear energy is big/important. 
• Creating a sense of panic. 
• Local news - relevant news. 

Video of paris gunman raises questions of affiliations. Relevant cause it's in Europe. It creates panic and upset cause it was a mass terrorist attack. 

MI5 chief warns al Qaeda in Syria planning mass attacks on West. Creates panic and alerts people in the UK. It's relevant to people in the UK. 

UK report on Libyan troop sex attacks says security was inadequate. Creates panic. It's local. 'Sex attacks' and 'Rape' gets your attention. 

Up to 70k homes without power as storms hit Britain.  It could affect you. Or the elderly. It's as close as Scotland. 

• Shia La Beouf mental breakdown at berlin film festival. 
• Shia La Beouf is not famous anymore
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