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Producing Serious News for Citizen Children: A Study of the BBC's Children's Program Newsround [Hardback]

  • Formāts: Hardback, 220 pages
  • Izdošanas datums: 28-Feb-2010
  • Izdevniecība: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 0773436537
  • ISBN-13: 9780773436534
  • Formāts: Hardback, 220 pages
  • Izdošanas datums: 28-Feb-2010
  • Izdevniecība: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 0773436537
  • ISBN-13: 9780773436534
this book provides an in-depth study of the production of the popular BBCs Children's news pragrame Newsround, uncovering fascinating and original insights into the changing history, personnel and production regime of this popular programme.
List of tables
i
List of figures
iii
Foreword v
Professor Simon Cottle
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1(8)
The need to know: children, citizenship and the environment
2(2)
News, form and the imagined child audience
4(1)
Structure of this book
5(4)
Chapter 1 Old issue and new(s) agendas
9(28)
Children, media and citizenship
9(8)
Citizenship, politics and the media
12(2)
A communicative space reflecting children's cultural rights
14(3)
`Childhood' and media production
17(4)
Production research
18(3)
Television news: constructing the for(u)m
21(9)
News forms
22(2)
Journalists, practices and the production of form
24(2)
Imagining audiences
26(1)
News-making practices: epistemology and symbolism
27(3)
Television news: constructing the for(u)m: a summary
30(1)
Explaining and representing the environment
30(5)
A larger view: risk society, the media and the visible environment
31(1)
Constructing the environment
32(2)
Summary
34(1)
Researching the children's news programme
35(2)
Chapter 2 Inside programme production
37(24)
Newsround: the case study
37(6)
Co-operation within the BBC: a tale of two departments
38(5)
News staff and production routines
43(4)
News production: a day in the newsroom
44(3)
The demands of news production and the programme visualization
47(1)
Production rituals and creative news making
48(10)
Visualizing the children's news form
54(4)
Visualizing the imagined programme audience
58(1)
Conclusion
59(2)
Chapter 3 Visualizing Newsround's agenda, stance and style
61(42)
The children's news form
61(2)
Visualizing the news agenda
63(9)
Relevance: the selection of adult news
63(2)
Interest: an alternative agenda?
65(3)
News that features children
68(1)
Fun stories and the changing agenda
69(3)
Visualizing the news stance
72(10)
Imagined audience and the mode of address
72(1)
Mode of address
73(3)
Personalization
76(1)
Demonstrativism
77(3)
Irreverence
80(2)
Visualizing the news style
82(19)
News language
82(1)
Personalizing news language
83(3)
Simplifying news language
86(5)
Explaining the news
91(2)
Popularizing the news
93(2)
News Style-Popularizing the visual
95(3)
Personalizing the visual
98(3)
Conclusion
101(2)
Chapter 4 `Naturalizing' the news agenda: the mediation of the environmental agenda
103(24)
Visualizing the child-centred news agenda
103(2)
Selecting `nature': children and the environmental issues
105(11)
Establishing the environment: linking kids with nature
106(2)
The modern agenda of environmental problem stories
108(1)
Popularizing news and the natural disaster
109(2)
Personalizing the `human threat to animals'
111(1)
Simplifying the pollution story
112(2)
Explaining food and scientific issues
114(2)
The modern agenda of environmental solution stories
116(8)
Mediating the conservation of animals
117(3)
Mediating the greening of society: industry and the individual
120(2)
Mediating the conservation of the land
122(2)
Conclusion
124(3)
Chapter 5 Mediating news voices: `out of the mouths of babes and experts'
127(22)
Producing news-access opportunities
127(5)
Mediating news voices: the adult news source
128(2)
Mediating the child news source
130(2)
Mediating environmental voices
132(2)
Informing the audience: environmental groups Introducing problems
134(4)
Inserting the environmental group voice in the environmental story
135(3)
Access for the audience: children's news voices
138(9)
Inserting the voices of children
139(2)
The mediated limits of experiential reactions
141(3)
Mediating the boundaries of analytic interpretations
144(3)
Conclusion
147(2)
Chapter 6 Constructing the environmental issue: mediating environmental language and visuals
149(22)
News practice: writing environmental stories
149(1)
Simplifying the environmental issue
150(7)
Animals as a synonym for the environmental problem
153(1)
Blame and justice in environmental problems: the representation of human actors and their actions
154(3)
Personalizing the environment story
157(4)
`Natural' appeals to the audience
158(1)
Anthropomorphic appeals to the audience
159(2)
Complementing words with pictures
161(7)
Acknowledging children's sensibilities and the news visual
162(1)
The power of pictures
163(5)
Conclusion
168(3)
Chapter 7 Conclusion
171(8)
Social problems and children's news
172(3)
News practices and the popularizing of news
175(2)
A more serious approach: children's news and the communicative space
177(2)
Bibliography 179(10)
Index 189