For news stories, a lot of research is conducted. For each news story, everything has to be factually correct so it abides by the contract to the viewer.
Primary Research -
Throughout the primary research for news stories, a researcher/reporter will get a lot of information from their own sources such as witnesses or actually people involved. They will also get information from owners if possible. The main way that a reporter would get stories for a news show would be interviews. When conducting interviews, they can get a lot of information if they ask the right questions.
For example, for my group's news show, we used a lot of different methods for gaining primary research. We conducted 2 sets of interviews that saw us get opinions on the current state of Southend United including their form and some opinions on players.
Secondary Research -
A lot of information gained for news stories is usually secondary research. This is a fairly easy option for news companies because it is usually reliable but they also need to be careful what information they use because it could be fake. The stories have to have factually correct information to abide by the contract with the viewers. Another thing that they have to be careful with is pictures. When using pictures to show things in news stories, if they are not taken by the company that is showing the story, there could be copyright issues.
For our news show, we only used secondary research from trusted sites that we can be sure have the correct information. These websites were the official Southend United website and the Echo Newspaper website.
Conclusion -
In my opinion, I think that it is more beneficial and 'safe' to conduct primary research rather than secondary research due to the issues that could arise. If you are conducting primary research then there will not be any copyright issues and the information is almost guaranteed to be accurate.
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