Journal #2: International News:

"Jailed Chinese dissident Liu wins Nobel Peace Prize"

The story is very interesting especially to hear about the angry Chinese leaders and people who protested the award given to Xiabo. Both BBC and NPR reported the story in the same manner however i'll be comparing the overall production quality between both.

BBC

Anchor: Suey Diamond

Length: 0:54 min

Analysis

Pros:

• The anchor's voice was articulate
• the anchor presented the story then used a recording from a source (Martin Patient)

Cons:

• experienced problems when opening the player from BBC's website and it wasn't very user friendly
• quality of the actual recording was poor with some static in the background
• no use of nat sounds
• segment was too short
  

(online radio broadcast can be heard here)

NPR

Anchor: Craig Windum

Length: 0:53 min

Analysis

Pros:

• The anchor's voice was articulate
• the anchor presented the story then used a recording from a source (Martin Patient)
• The media player that popped up from the NPR website was very fast, no buggy and was user friendly
• the quality of the recording was excellent
  

Cons:

• no use of nat sounds
• segment was too short

(online radio broadcast can be heard here)