Creating a Television News Story

The purpose of this senior thesis was to create a news package that could be aired live on the local news. This process includes many aspects of journalism and film technique. -- Before starting anything, an idea for a story must be created. Once the topic of the story is chosen, the planning can begin. The planning includes picking an specific topic to focus on, finding sources to interview that are knowledgeable about the topic, scheduling interviews and planning the different shots that will be filmed for the story. -- This story was about the University of Alaska Fairbanks cheerleaders. The main topic about the team was how they received a $25,000 out of state donation in order to go to collegiate nationals in Anaheim, California. This was a feature story rather than a breaking news story, so the time constraint wasn’t an issue. There was time to film and interview different environments and people. The materials needed for the product was a HD camera, SD card, external hard drive, audio equipment and a tripod. After all of the planning, filming and editing, the final product was aired on the local Fairbanks news station CBS 13

Efficiency and News in Exchange Rate Market. The Euro/Dollar Case

The aim of the paper is twofold: the first one is to examine the theoretical points that constitute literature on exchange rate market efficiency. We give a quick look to the long run, in which high or low efficiency results from the adjustment velocity of prices and production in goods market. We then go to examine literature conclusions about the short run. The second aim is to test the efficiency for the US dollar against the Euro foreign exchange market with a `news’ exchange rate model using daily data over a period of 19 months. In the model we use, as proxies of ‘news’, variables generated by the residuals from a VAR model. Our results are consistent with the hypothesis that the forward exchange rate is not an unbiased predictor of the future spot rate. That is, we reject the hypothesis of efficiency and we show the importance of the ‘news’ in determining short-run movements in the exchange rate markets. The general conclusion we reach is that the euro dollar exchange rate market, from its birth to august 2000, is not efficient because expectations could not be rational, i.e. operators cannot predict risks coming from stock exchange and from uncertainty on future values of economic variables

The role of news on Facebook

On Facebook, the largest social media platform, news is a common but incidental experience, according to an initiative of Pew Research Center in collaboration with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Overall, about half of adult Facebook users, 47%, “ever” get news there. That amounts to 30% of the population. Most U.S. adults do not go to Facebook seeking news out, the nationally representative online survey of 5,173 adults finds. Instead, the vast majority of Facebook news consumers, 78%, get news when they are on Facebook for other reasons. And just 4% say it is the most important way they get news. As one respondent summed it up, “I believe Facebook is a good way to find out news without actually looking for it.” However, the survey provides evidence that Facebook exposes some people to news who otherwise might not get it. While only 38% of heavy news followers who get news on Facebook say the site is an important way they get news, that figure rises to 47% among those who follow the news less often. “If it wasn’t for Facebook news,” wrote one respondent, “I’d probably never really know what’s going on in the world because I don’t have time to keep up with the news on a bunch of different locations.” In particular, younger adults, who as a group are less engaged than their elders are with news on other platforms, are as engaged, if not more so, with news on Facebook. Young people (18- to 29– year-olds) account for about a third, 34%, of Facebook news consumers. That far outpaces the 20% that they account for among Facebook users who do not get news on the site. What’s more, these 18- to 29-year-olds get news on Facebook across topics at roughly the same levels as older age groups, turn there as often for breaking news and deem the site as important a source of news. All in all, then, it may be the very incidental nature of the site that ultimately exposes more people to news there. Indeed, the more time one spends on the site, the more likely they are to get news there. Two-thirds (67%) of those who use Facebook for at least an hour a day get news there compared with only 41% of those who spend less than an hour a day on the site. These are some of the findings of the survey, which is the first in a multi-part research project by the Pew Research Center, in collaboration with the Knight Foundation, examining the role of news on Facebook and other social media platforms. Authors: Amy Mitchell, Jocelyn Kiley, Jeffrey Gottfried and Emily Guski