Technical features of “infotainment”, such as montages and camera pans, are present in different types of television news, write Amanda Alencar, of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Sanne Kruikemeier, of University of Amsterdam. The authors compared prime time newscasts on a total of six television channels from Spain, Ireland, and the Netherlands. Two channels, one … Continued

The British BBC and the Chinese CCTV use different presentation strategies in their television news, writes Debing Feng, of Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics. Feng analysed the structure of BBC’s News at Ten and CCTV’s News Simulcast broadcasts from during five days in 2012. BBC’s news can be interpreted as more “confrontational”, Feng discovered. … Continued

The news headlines used in BBC’s flagship news program, BBC News at Ten, are designed not only to summarize, but also to stoke interest, write Martin Montgomery, of University of Macau, and Debing Feng, of Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics. The authors closely analysed ten episodes of BBC News at Ten collected in early … Continued