Artefact: Two shows broadcast news from the late 1980s. With the news story remaining the same, this artefact attempted to see the state broadcast news was in, and the direction it would be heading into.
Digital technology was starting to be introduced however the first signs of the technology did not show any sign of improvements over the current Betacam technology. During this time, the footage had to be recorded at a high quality, as to distribute the news story, the story would be edited offline onto a lower grade tape.
The role of the news gathered was looking after the journalism and content of the news piece, and still had very little knowledge and dealings with the equipment; large crews were needed to film the news story.
The state of the broadcast news industry at the time had improved further. News was still of the utmost importance with more money being invested into it (and a lot more than into entertainment programming), and with news story’s being able to be longer in length, this allowed for more freedom for the editing of a news story. News gatherers were now able to travel abroad to record news stories, even if the news story was for a regional news TV station.
The first female camera operator was in the mid 1980s, this was a drastic change from the camera operator previously always being male.
Sky News was introduced in the late part of the 1980s, this started a new news revolution by introducing 24 hour news channel. Parliament being televised for the first time in 1989 would change political reporting forever.
This artefact has established that the late 1980s to early 1990s was the period of time were news was at the forefront of television, but it will be interesting to see if the new digital technology had much impact on the importance of news.
[Edit: Evaluation submitted online at 11:00, 16th April 2008.]
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