14 Public affairs reporting
Sometimes referred to as current affairs, sometimes as public affairs, these expressions mean the same thing. All the same principles apply to public affairs as to news, but there are additional responsibilities in these programmes. In public affairs the journalist has to explain, analyse and put stories into context.
Current affairs looks at reasons why the news of the day has happened. It isn’t worried about the ‘happening now’ part of the news process, but is much more interested in drawing longer-range conclusions and analysing them. Current affairs follows the news and is involved with news that might be quite ‘old’. Therefore, in these programmes studio links and stories must always be written and constructed ...
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