When exploring the way in which Local stories are presented I noticed that they do not all contain the 5W's. Whereas all National News stories I looked at did. This may be due to the fact that national news needs to be more direct to the people it tries to connect with and give them as much information as possible, as they may be discussing an area that the readers are not familiar with.
An additional comparison I cam across in my research was related to the News Values the two types of stories use. For example, Local News stories do not use as many of the News Values to justify a story's inclusion - they have less news to choose from so may not select the news in the same way. Familiarity is particularly important in local news as the stories are often directly related to the local area, and many of these stories would never make the national news. On this basis, I am going to make sure that all of the stories that I write have direct relevance to the listeners in my local area.
When analyzing the two different types of news, I noticed that National News often targets recent affairs abroad, whereas Local News targets the niche interest of small areas.
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