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Hello, welcome to Newswatch with me, Samira Ahmed. | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
School children around the country tried their hand at reporting the | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
news on Thursday. But how does BBC News serve this age group as an | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
audience? We'll hear some teenagers tell the | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
Head of the BBC Newsroom what they want from the Corporation's news | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
service. Are teenagers interested in the | :00:25. | :00:33. | |
news? If not, does it matter? And what do they actually consider | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
newsworthy? It could be a problem for the BBC if there's a generation | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
growing up without the habit of accessing news on its various | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
outlets. We saw some examples of that generation, not just consuming | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
news, but making it, for Thursday's BBC School Report Day. More than | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
30,000 children from over 1000 schools created content online, on | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
radio and on TV, including an interview with Michael Gove in which | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
he demonstrated his rapping skills. We asked some of those School | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
Reporters from London's Richmond Park Academy to tell us what they | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
think of BBC News. A lot of the time it is sort of | :01:01. | :01:20. | |
aimed more at adults. It hasn't got a lot to do with teenagers. | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
Most of the things aren't really for our age group. It's quite hard to | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
understand what it's all about because I'm not very into the news. | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
In a typical day, I wouldn't really watch news programmes or look at the | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
BBC website. I get my news from the Metro. | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
I don't really enjoy the news that much. It doesn't really target me. | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
In a way, I think it's just something my parents should know | :01:50. | :01:50. | |
about. That lack of engagement with | :01:51. | :01:59. | |
traditional news bulletins represent a challenge for the broadcasters. | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
But the BBC News app and mobile and online news in general are embraced | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
more enthusiastically by these teenagers. | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
With the app, it's really easy because you can choose which variety | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
of news you want to read. UK news, international news, education and | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
health news. You get to choose what you want. | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
For School Report, these students have been making TV, radio and text | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
reports on subjects such as exam pressure and homophobia, filming and | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
editing them themselves. And there is more evidence that this is a very | :02:32. | :02:40. | |
media`literate generation. I took part in a scheme where we | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
managed to create an app and design an advert for it. We also did an | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
advert for the sixth form. I studied digital media for a year, so that | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
helped. I think that now, my generation do have to know about | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
media because everything relates around it. | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
No surprise then that they know their way around different media | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
outlets. If I had to focus on the news | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
changing and laws changing and things like that, I would normally | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
watch BBC free speech. Because they tend to have a lot of opinions going | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
about. It has debates and people get to project their opinions about what | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
is going on. How they feel the news is maybe biased sometimes. | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
Unfortunately, the debate programme "free speech" is on BBC three, which | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
will become an online`only channel with reduced content next year. And | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
there is another problem for this group. The way teenagers are | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
represented on broadcast news, in reports like this. | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
REPORTER: the teenage killer, here wearing a baseball cap... | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
They are portrayed in a really negative way. There isn't much good | :03:47. | :03:55. | |
news about them. Most news is about fights or someone getting stabbed | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
and it's mostly teenagers doing it. But actually, it's just a minority. | :03:58. | :04:07. | |
They are not taking into account the other teenagers who are actually | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
doing something with their lives. The desire for more inspirational, | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
positive stories, featuring role models such as Malala Yousafzai, | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
reflects a wider discontent with the subject matter of TV news. | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
They focus on one thing in particular. Then they string it | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
along for too long and don't really move on. Adults think that things | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
like celebrity gossip isn't news but it still kind of is and that is what | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
my age group mostly read or listen to. | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
I guess I'm just more interested in what is happening around me, so | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
politics, anything that could affect my life. | :04:50. | :04:57. | |
Plenty to ponder then, for executives and editors, who want to | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
ensure that this doesn't become a generation lost to BBC News. | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
Two of the School Reporters featured there, Rose and Tippi, join me now | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
in the studio, along with the Head of the BBC Newsroom, Mary Hockaday. | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
We asked you to look at a bulletin from Wednesday. It featured energy | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
companies and the cultural separation and the teacher strike. | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
What did you make of it as a piece of news? | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
The energy News will apply to me when I am older about it is not | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
something that affects me at the moment. I have school to worry | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
about. The teacher strike does apply to me. That is something I would | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
like to know about. That affects my education. I am coming into your | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
ten. I am more interested in the other side of it. The politics, so I | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
was quite engaged with the gas story and the cuts story. If you care | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
enough about the actual subject matter, I believe teenagers would | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
also be engaged. It is interesting. We know that | :06:16. | :06:24. | |
young people want celebrity news. Some adults really hate this. This | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
is a dilemma. Programmes like the main bulletins | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
have a broad audience which features older people as well. We're trying | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
to do a summary of what we think are the main stories of the day. But in | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
a way that we hope is interesting to a broad audience, including a | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
younger audience. Howl about how young people are | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
portrayed? There is a perception that you see teenagers wearing | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
hooded tops and they have committed crimes. But we don't see positive | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
portrayals. I would hope that across the range | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
we do show teenagers in lots of different lights. Some examples | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
recently where talking to young entrepreneurs, including a guy who | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
made a new Zap aged 17 and has managed to sell it for huge amounts | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
of money. I would hope that in the round, we are talking about the real | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
lives of real young people. I would also say that as well as the main | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
news, there are some services which are really for young people. You | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
guys may be growing out of Newsround. | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
What you think about specialised content? Newsround is aimed at those | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
aged up to 12. There is also BBC Three's free speech. But of course | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
that channel will become online. Is there enough content for you? I | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
think it is unfair that the kind of skip out our age group. Newsround | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
goes up to 12 years old and then... It is more celebrity or sports which | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
might not appeal to our age. Then suddenly it goes to more serious | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
content. There is a big space for our age. Unless they check online, | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
they don't have something that they can watch. | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
This idea that you should go online, there are different applications, is | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
that the answer? That is a great way for people like | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
me to access the news. But it would be nice if there were TV news shows | :08:41. | :08:49. | |
specifically for teenagers. I agree that it kind of skips our age gap | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
aged over 12. You offer a lot of platforms, but | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
actually people want a bulletin aimed at them. They are neglected. | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
You're not the first people to see this. It is interesting. We have | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
been thinking hard about this. I think there is a gap between the | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
Newsround audience and the main news audience. And then there is BBC | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
Three. There is also news be, a radio service. We know that not all | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
young people listen to the radio. We're looking at ways to take more | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
of the Newspeak journalism, of which you are the target audience, and | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
make it available not just on radio, but in video, on digital platforms. | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
I think that we will be able to do that in the next few months. We | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
should have something exciting. We're also doing something with | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
putting new stories onto social platforms like Facebook and | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
YouTube. We always leave you to tell us we're due are going in which | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
platforms you spent time on. Thank you very much. | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
And you can see stories from the students of Richmond Park Academy | :10:09. | :10:10. | |
and other young reporters from around the UK on the BBC School | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
Report website: bbc.co.uk/schoolreport. | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
Just time before we go for a couple of your comments on this week's news | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
coverage, which has featured prominently the ongoing and tragic | :10:25. | :10:26. | |
saga of the missing Malaysian airliner. On Monday, the airline | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
said their assumption was that the plane was lost, with no survivors, | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
and news bulletins showed the reaction of relatives of those on | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
board. Gillian Hugh`Jones was: "Appalled and incredulous that you | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
keep showing video of the anguished and devastated families and friends | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
of the passengers. You could have given them the dignity of privacy at | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
this time." And on Wednesday there was news of | :10:44. | :10:51. | |
the "conscious uncoupling" of celebrity couple Gwyneth Paltrow and | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
Chris Martin, if "news" is the word, which ` according to Gill Brooks ` | :10:55. | :10:56. | |
it isn't. "Is this really so important to the | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
British public?" She asked. "It certainly isn't to me. This is | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
frivolous showbiz gossip. If every marriage break`up was reported on | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
the news, there would be no room for anything else." | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
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bbc.co.uk/newswatch. That's all from us. Join us again | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
next week. Goodbye. Thunderstorms have kept going this | :11:23. | :11:49. | |
evening across parts of the Midlands and stretching into other areas. | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
Some hail being reported. | :11:56. | :11:56. |