Lighting emergency incidents in news broadcasting Russian and foreign TV channels

This article describes the modern principles of news broadcasting on modern Russian and foreign TV channels with special focus on covering emergencies. It denotes the relevance of the news broadcasting, as the main and most resource-demanding product of any TV channel. The article indicates the Western and Russian TV channel’s tendency to provide news as a show: the tv-viewer must not only get a matter-of-fact information, but also be passionate about watching news. And modern television has a number of ways to arouse the viewer’s interest. Article author’s attention is focused particular on the coverage of emergencies - that is the kind of information that has the biggest rating in newscast and, as a result, it gets the maximum jobbery from journalists.