How to Read the News - Episode 1

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BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.1 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

When journalists tell stories, they rarely start at the beginning but instead with the latest development. Context comes towards the end. It’s called the ‘inverted pyramid’.

When scandal at the Confederation of British Industry hit the newspapers and boss Tony Danker was dismissed, he complained that articles didn’t state right at the start that he was not accused of the worst misconduct. If you didn’t make it much past the headlines, you might not realise that. We discover why journalists write stories ‘the wrong way up’, how that affects how we understand them, and how that might change with new technology.

‘How to Read the News’ - this series is all about giving you the tools to decode the news.

Presenter: Jo Fidgen Producer: Charlotte McDonald Researchers: Beth Ashmead Latham, Kirsteen Knight Editors: China Collins, Emma Rippon

Transcript

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0:00.0	This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box.
0:05.0	The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.
0:09.0	And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.0	The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.5	The IRA inmates who found a way.
0:14.5	I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path
0:19.5	through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.
0:25.0	The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.
0:28.5	Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:35.0	BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:39.0	Hello, welcome to Seriously, from BBC Radio 4. I'm Joe Fijon host of How to Read the News. I did
0:46.9	used to be a news reader but this series is not about how to enunciate your
0:51.5	words it's about how the news is
0:54.4	news is assembled. I've worked as a journalist for years. I know how much effort
0:58.6	goes into making a story roadworthy. This is my attempt to show you under the bonnet. My thinking is if you know
1:05.8	how all the parts fit together you'll get a lot more out of the ride. You're about
1:11.8	to hear episode one to hear the rest just search for how to read the news on BBC sounds. Buckle up. Here we go.
1:22.0	This series is all about giving you the tools to decode the news.
1:27.0	By the time a story has made its way into the newspaper or onto a bulletin,
1:31.0	it's been spotted, selected, stood up shaped framed and got over the line
1:37.3	There's a lot of jargon but stick with it. It'll all become clear this is how to read the news. Episode 1, have you read paragraph 8?
1:47.0	In March last year the
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