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[From Introduction] Jon Snow, a respected UK journalist and news presenter, has argued that children ‘have a watershed to protect them but no mechanism to inform them’ (Snow 1994). Observing\nthat there is a disproportionate amount of news and current affairs programmes for adults\nin comparison to children, he concludes that broadcasters are failing to inform this\nimportant constituency of society. This general argument usefully focuses attention on\nthe quantity of news information available for children but in doing so fails to discuss the\nchild audience’s regular diet of news through specialised children's news programmes on\nboth terrestrial and non-terrestrial television channels – whether BBC1, Channel 4 or\nNickelodeon. Likewise, the media communication research literature has little to say\nabout the nature and content of these special children’s news programmes. Hence, this\nchapter will report on an in-depth study into one of the most popular, and certainly the\nlongest running, of children’s news programmes – BBC1’s Newsround. (1) It deliberately\nfocuses on the programme’s construction of the children’s environmental agenda as a\nway of both exploring and explaining how the ‘professional visualisation’ (Cottle 1993a)\nof this children’s news form shapes the nature of its output. These insights are important\nnot just because they address the under-researched form of children’s news but also\nbecause they provide a deeper understanding of how differentiated news forms condition\nand constrain television news in different ways – a finding that has theoretical relevance\nfor our understanding of how news production shapes and conditions democratic\nrepresentation and processes of citizenship.
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