Radio News Lecture one:

Radio is immediate, intermediate and personal and is therefore different to broadcast on television.
Radio journalism uses the following conventions:
Headlines - outline a summary of main stories and proceed bulletins.
Bulletins - usually 2-5 minutes long and begin with a headline. Include a voicer or voice piece, use audio cuts and vox pops.
News Programmes - have a headline, explore topics in greater detail, include many stories, interviews, two ways and sometimes debate and comment, also packages.
Magazine Programmes - Topical (new stories) and timeless, or may use a topical story as a peg on which to hang. May use many of the same conventions as news programmes, but may also include other items.
documentaries

Packages:
- a cue is read
- May have an introduction and conclusion read by reporter.
- reporter links recorded or on location may be included.
- Some times there is more than one interview.
- May have vox pops, music, sound FX and archive clips.
- These are all then packaged together.

Documentaries:
- Documentaries are extented packages or feature which explore particular subject or issue in great depth.
- they use the same conventions and content as packages and, sometimes, news programmes.

Target audiences:
- Defined by ages and social demogrphic (A, B, C1, C2, D, E).
- Style and format will be dictated by target audience to which the station aims it output.

Practical - Vox Pops:
We were sent out with recording equipment to gather vox pops on a newsworthy topic of our choice. Myself, Ellen and Tammy set out with the intention of asking people what there views were on the nearing £1million pound bonus, Stephen Hester of RBS is set to receive. After approaching a handful of people we realised no one was willing to give us an answer and decided to change what we asked.
We then came up with asking how the rise in the cost of living has effected the people of Winchester, particularly the rise in train fares, as we believed this to be a timeless topic effecting most people in some way. Our change of question meant we actually got some very interesting answers to edit together next lesson. Fun times.