Listening Journal #2

NPR hourly newscast

Anchor: Lak Shmee Sing

Reporters:  Yuki Niguchi, Tom Bowman, Dwahili Sao Kao Tao,

Length: 4:46

The newscast had really good quality sound, I didn’t find it hard understanding anything that was said, the pace was fair, if it was any slower it would get monotonous and boring.
It contained American news concerning unemployment, a sound bite that contained an excerpt of Obama's speech, and it's worth mentioning that the excerpt was mastered as to not sound disorienting when shifting between the anchor and the speech.
Each story is first set up by the anchor and then you get a reporter from the corresponding country going into more depth about the story.
The news cast also included reports from china about the Nobel peace prize, economic news and a report from Seoul about the leader's son.
There were no Nat sounds at all in the newscast; maybe if there were more it could've been a little bit more interesting.

BBC newscast

Anchor: Nick Kelly

Reporters: Nick Thorp, Nicholas Whitchel, James Copnell

Length: 5 minutes

Stories: Hungarian toxic sludge, rescue shaft in Chili (health minister in Spanish translation in English), British aid worker captured in Afghanistan Dies, insurgents ambush group of Italian soldiers from NATO, Pakistani government, United Nations talks on climate change, clash in Khartoum, update from Chili, Indonesia former playboy editor taken into custody

This newscast felt more official than NPR; there was more news in there even though there were 3 reporters and an anchor in both newscasts.
It involved news from Hungary about the toxic sludge, news from Chili about a rescue shaft being dug for the miners who've been trapped in a collapsed mine and Afghanistan where a captured British aid worker dies and insurgents ambushing Italian NATO soldiers, among others.
It was impressive seeing an update come in later during the newscast about Chili, but there was no mention of any sports or business news.