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Types of News
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Event Based Stories or Spot News Stories
‘Event Based Stories’ are also known as ‘Spot News Stories’. The term covers a wide range of news stories from the proceedings of parliament and state assemblies to disasters.
‘Spot News’ is also known as ‘Breaking News’ particularly when events unfold over a period of time.
Characteristics of Spot News Stories
Spot news coverage is a kind of reaction to events which may be unexpected like a natural disaster or scheduled like a demonstration or a press conference.
Most of the time information for spot news stories is gathered and covered against tight deadlines.
Characteristics of Spot News Stories
Spot news coverage is competitive by nature. The reason being that reporters from a range of news organizations cover the same event simultaneously.
Depth Coverage
What do you understand by ‘Depth Coverage.’
Depth Coverage
Depth news is also hard news, but it goes beyond spot developments.
In other words it goes beyond simply reporting events and put those events ‘in a context which gives them meaning.’
Characteristics of Depth Coverage
Depth reporting is the explanatory story that accompanies or follows a breaking story.
Depth reporting is what makes readers aware of all aspects of a given subject by giving them all possible information, including background and atmosphere.
Characteristics of Depth Coverage
Depth reporting is not a one man job but is the product of a team work.
Depth reporting deals in explanatory facts and not explanatory opinion.
Depth reporting is that which leaves no occasion for more questions to be asked by the reader/viewer.
Characteristics of Depth Coverage
Depth reporting is not just presentation of facts as they appear at first, but which delves into the origins, the logic, the pressures and the interests involved, making the reader understand not merely who and what, but how, and more importantly why.
Soft News Or Human Interest Stories
Soft news is about things that people instinctively want to know, as opposed to things they feel duty-bound to know.
Stories whose purpose is more to entertain than to inform are called ‘soft news.’
Soft news is thought to be less important than hard news, but not necessarily unimportant.
Balancing Hard and Soft News
Broadcasters are heaviest with hard news in the morning and evening when people look for wrap-ups on what has happened overnight or during the day.
Radio and television news, which emphasizes immediacy, lends itself to hard news.