M3 KA2 asks you to examine one event through three different media channels and compare the coverage. Today you choose that event and lock in three sources that are genuinely different forms, not three versions of the same thing.
Today's brief is preparation for M3 KA2, not the whole Key Assignment: you build the comparison in the next lessons. By the end you will have written your KA2 Event Brief, the one piece you file in your Communication Portfolio today.
Three sources only count for KA2 if they are different forms, not three outlets of the same kind.
| Term | What it means for you | Real example |
|---|---|---|
| Media channel: the form or place a story appears | You need three forms, not three newspapers | Radio bulletin, newspaper website, short social video |
| Coverage: how that channel presents the event | What it stresses, skips, and how it sounds or looks | Ninety seconds on radio versus nine paragraphs online |
| Event brief: your plan for the comparison | Names the event, three sources, and why each form differs | A one-page setup before the workshops |
Here is the test in action. A flood that closed a town's main street, covered as an evening TV news report, a phone-in on local radio the next morning, and the front page of the printed local paper: three forms. The same flood in three radio news bulletins: one form three times. That second set does not count. Send it back and find a real trio.
Build a shortlist of events you could track, with more candidates than you need: you will cut hard in the next step.
How to find coverage: search the event's name with a form word (radio, video, report); look through the news pages of local radio and newspaper websites, where older pieces stay online; and search the event or the place on the social platforms you use.
The list does not save, so keep this page open until you have sifted it.
Before you write the brief, practise the cut on the first two sets below. The other three are extra practice if you have time. Then keep one event from your shortlist and, under Enter Your Work, lock three named sources for it, with a note on where you will open each one again.
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