Alot of the books I came across during my investigation were based purely on Television and radio news broadcasting as opposed to digital and online broadcasting, but some of the traits of these two forms of broadcast also translate perfectly into Online news broadcasting which could be useful for this unit.
The first book I investigated was "Television Journalism" by Steve Cushion.
This book was very useful when it came to analyzing and investigating the inner workings of Television Journalism. The writer, Steve Cushion discusses the way Television Journalism is funded as well as how the news is slotted strategically into a television time-slot to fully take advantage of the audience and increase the broadcast's effectiveness.
Obviously since our particularly news will be broadcast online, and is therefore accessible at any time of day, the way in which it is slotted into a particular time-slot to appeal to a certain audience isn't something we need to massively consider, but it is interesting information to have anyway.
Another somewhat irrelevant but interesting topic discussed in this book was the idea of sexism and gender inequality in the journalism industry. I had never really noticed or considered this before, but Steve makes a brilliant observation on page 152 when he writes that it seems as though female news anchors are often made to present "softer" news stories, such as health and human interest issues, whilst their male counter-parts are allowed to present more hard-hitting stories, such as politics and war debates.
Of course, our group has no intention of following this stereotype with our news network, but it was interesting to discover something that I had been relatively oblivious to beforehand.
It may benefit our project to go "against the grain" and have a female news reporter actually reporting on more hard-hitting issues.
The second book I took a look at was called "Broadcast Journalism- A Critical Introduction" by Jane Chapman and Marie Kinsey.
As someone who has studied criminal and civil law in the past, I found this book to be the most interesting one I looked at, and I feel that learning first hand what the rules of entertainment law are would be a very important thing to do before we begin running stories.
If we can understand how to abide by strict law when it comes to working in the news industry, we can avoid lawsuits and accusations that we have caused defamation of character or slander.
I also took a look at a few other books, which mostly presented me with the same information as the other books, albeit with some exception. For example, the book "Television Production and Broadcast Journalism" by Phillip L. Harris discusses the usage of the actual production set that the news studio takes place in.
This is a key point in creating news, as our sets will have to be laid out in a certain way to cater to the audience, as well as look attractive enough to give the audience something to look at.
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