BBC Workshop Task

Structure & Conventions

BBC

ITV

National - Starts with Remembrance Day, Poppies in London. 10 minutes

long
International - Civil war in Syria 3 minutes
Finance - Benefits to unemployed migrants
Sport/General Interest - Sheffield United convicted rapists allowed to
train with team
Science - Comet Rosette Probe
More on the tribute
Finance - Cost of public transport

National - Remembrance Day 12 minutes

Politics David Cameron
International India Sterilisation story
Science - Comet
Back to Remembrance Day
A little sport

Channel 5
National - Remembrance Day 10 minutes
Political Home Secretary scandal
Finance -Limits to payday loans interest rates
General Interest/Social Pensioners Story
Back to Remembrance Day
Channel 4
Joint intro;
National Remembrance Day
International Ebola 7 minutes
Remembrance Day 3 minutes
Political Scandal at Home Office and David Cameron about immigration
Arts and Cultural Controversial furniture
Science & Health nose cells regeneration
International More on Ebola

Conclusion
BBC focuses more on National News Remembrance Day, and the other
news items were largely national with only one international story. Heavily
about national news, reporting live from the Tower of London. Positive as its
patriotic. A good impact as it shows unity within the nation, and showed
different areas of the UK and how they remembered with different
ceremonies.
Channel 4 focused more on the international news of Ebola, along with a
sunken ferry in China (homicides), an Australian who has been jailed in Egypt.
Reporting live from Tower of London but saying metaphors about the poppies
to the relevant story. As an hour long programme each report is longer. Not
new news. Repetitive, reporting on existing stories. Not much impact as it is
repeated, and as it was remembrance day people more likely would of wanted
more coverage of the events going on around the country.
On Remembrance Day we would say that International News isnt as
newsworthy.