Left-53506100 BKK 20503 Essays - Journalism, News Media, Mass Media

left-53506100 BKK 20503 MEDIA, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY Comparing and contrasting a "hard news" article of an event in a foreign country with the same report from local newspaper. PREPARED FOR: MADAM NOR HAFIZAH ABDULLAH BY: NUR WAIRA BINTI MOHD NASIR (040910) 1.0 What is the event / occurrence? The report covers about an explosion near a chaotic sidewalk in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan , New York City at 8.30 p.m. on Saturday night that caused injuries of at least 29 people. It was believed by the authorities that the explosion was erupted by a homemade bomb which they later assumed it as an act of terror. However, the governor said that no international links found in the explosion. To make it worse, the authorities then found a second explosive device a few blocks away from where the earlier location of explosion occurred. After an investigation was carried out, they found that the second explosion device was actually a pressure cooker attached to wiring and a cellphone. Indeed, it was a tragic night for the New Yorkers and became more to a nightmare for them because of the history of 9/11 attacks CITATION CHR \l 1033 (M. Christopher, 2016) . 2.0 Why is the event considered "hard news"? How is this event considered as hard news? Basic knowledge of this is, news stories are divided into two types which are hard news and soft news. Hard news is regarded as breaking news or current news which the printing is exclusively reported for the readers to acknowledge it immediately. S oft news in the other hand are just the featured ones such as arts, entertainment and lifestyles CITATION Int08 \l 1033 (n.a, Introduction to Journalism, 2008) . One of the characteristics of hard news is that it usually but not compulsory to be appeared on the front page of newspapers . In this case, the event was being highlighted on the cover page, reported in two pages. On the front page, the event was put in a title of "9/17 shakes New York" with a picture included at the side of a very brief information regarding the event. Though it is said that hard news does not necessarily to be appeared on the front page, but it gives a ver y concrete reason why the "9/17 shakes New York" is considered as hard news. Besides being featured on the front page, hard news contain more factual approach in its presentation. If we carefully scrutinize the lede p aragraph of the news, it actually answers the 5W and 1H questions which stand for who', what', where', when', why' and how'. For instance, the lede paragraph of the news answered those questions in just a paragraph; "An explosion rocked a crowded Manhattan neighborhood and injured 29 people, and a suspicious device discovered blocks away was safely removed ". Hard news is commonly being ranked on the top of the list to be printed in the newsroom if the subject matters are like politics, war, economic and crime. In this explosion tragedy, it falls under the subject matters like politics, war and crime. Such news of the subject matters are very crucial to be reported to the society, nation and the world so that everyone will be more careful and take precautions to avoid any scenes. People need to know what is truly going on out there. 3.0 What are wire / news services? Who supplied the information to the Malaysian newspaper? Wire services are widely used in every news agency. Wire services are defined as news organizations that collect a nd issue news of forms from around the world. Wire services are benefit newspapers, magazines, broadcast outlet and government agencies at the wholsesale level CITATION YeJ03 \l 1033 (Ye, 2003) . In this article, the wire services that supplied the information to Malaysia newspapers are; Reuters, Associated Press (AP) and European Pressphoto Agency (EPA). Reuters provided a photo of the firefighters working near the site of the explosion in Chelsea. The European Pressphoto Agency also provided a photo showing the police investigators sifting through the debris on the street in front of St Vincent de Paul Church where the explosion occurred in the borough of