Hard News

Hard News is all factual and is seen as mostly important and serious news. It sets a serious tone and atmosphere to show the importance of the information that is being put across. Hard news would be things about murders or any news about wars that are going on, so in general any current affairs.

Below is an example of hard news. This is hard news as it is about current affairs which is serious and important, the video tells you exactly what is going on with interviews as well therefore this is considered Hard News.

Hard news is always placed towards the beginning as this way it gets all the important and serious information out of the way so that soft news can then be shared. As hard news will put people down therefore you will not want to hear that right before watching a show as it will give the whole thing a bad vibe therefore you have it first so that soft news can then be placed at the end to put people in a happy state for the rest of their evening.