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FINAL PROJECT 25N CATALAN ELECTIONS This year, the next 25th of November, will be a very important day to Catalonia, that could determinate his future as independent territory from Spain, or just stay in a “want but I can’t” situation in the middle on the road of “his dream” as an independence state.

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INDEX PAGES 2 – 3:

Brief introduction of main catalan parties -

CiU ERC (RLC) PSC (SPC) PPC

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NEWSPAPER (THE NEW REPORTER) A- INTRO PAGE 4 – 7:………………………...a. Pre-election day PAGE 7- 10:…………………………b. Election day

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RADIO (FRESHREPORT NETWORK)

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TV (BN CHANNEL)

A- INTRO PAGES 14 – 15:…………………………………………………… B- MAIN DIVISION PAGES 15 – 16:…………………………………………………… C- DESTINATIONS AND EXTERIOR REPORTERS PAGES 16 – 17:…………………………………………………… D- HOURS DISTRIBUTION

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ONLINE (NEW REPORTER D.E)

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Brief introduction of main Catalan parties:

 Convergence and Union From Wikipedia

Convergence and Union (Catalan: Convergència i Unió, CiU; is a centre-right electoral alliance in Catalonia,Spain. CiU is technically a federation of two constituent parties, the larger Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) and its smaller counterpart, the Democratic Union of Catalonia (UDC). It is currently led by Artur Mas, who is the current President of the Catalan Government. CiU is a Catalan nationalist party. It is usually seen as a moderate nationalist party, both in Catalonia and in the rest of Spain. Depending on the observer it is regarded as either conservative or centrist. Still, liberal leanings may be found in the larger CDC, while Union is a Christian democraticparty. As for its position in the nationalist debate, it is deliberately ambiguous so as to appeal to the broadest spectrum possible, from voters who seek full independence from Spain to those who are generally satisfied with the present self-government status. In general, the CDC tends to be more supportive of Catalan sovereignty, while the UDC is considered closer to traditional Catalan autonomism and more nuanced nationalism. Its leader, Mas, recently declared that he did not support full independence from Spain. In the most recent regional elections, held on 28 November 2010, CiU won by 38.5% of the vote. It gained 14 seats in the Catalan Parliament, which brought them to a total of 62 deputies. While they hold more than twice as many seats as any other party, they are still 6 seats short of a majority in the 135 member body. Although they have stated the determination to rule without a formal coalition, in certain issues they seek external support from other political parties, especially Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and People's Party (PPC).

 Republican Left of Catalonia From Wikipedia The Republican Left of Catalonia (Catalan: Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, ERC; IPA) is a left wingCatalan independentist political party in Spain. It is also the main sponsor of the independence movement from France and Spain in the territories known among Catalan nationalists as Països Catalans. Occitan Republican Left, formed in 2008, acts as the Aranese section. Its current president is Oriol Junqueras and its secretary-general is Marta Rovira.

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 Socialists' Party of Catalonia From Wikipedia The Socialists' Party of Catalonia (Catalan: Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya, PSC) is a social-democratic political party in Catalonia, Spain resulting from the merge of two parties PSC Reagrupament led by Josep Pallach i Carolà and PSC Comgres. It is the Catalan referent of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), and its Aranese section is Unity of Aran. The party had also been allied with federalist and republican political platform Citizens for Change (Ciutadans pel Canvi) until the 2010 election.

 People's Party of Catalonia From Wikipedia The People's Party of Catalonia (Catalan: Partit Popular de Catalunya, Spanish: Partido Popular de Cataluña, PPC) is a centreright political party in Catalonia, Spain. It is the Catalan affiliate of the Spanish People's Party.

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COVERAGE PLAN NEWSPAPER (THE NEW REPORTER) A. INTRODUCCTION On the occasion of the Catalan elections The New Reporter, will organize two different plans to hedge against the elections, where the first, will be a summary of content prior to election day, consisting of interviews, counts, opinions and previous elections to position the reader against new elections, and that are based on comparative data collected compared to previous elections, proposals and improvements every game and raises the possibilities that lie ahead, according to surveys. While on the other hand, the second cover, will exclusively focused on the analysis of the results and what it will mean to each party, once the results have been revealed. Each of this coverage will have its own cover, different but same theme. Where the first shows a representative image (for example, the people voting) and the second, of course, show a picture of the winning political representative. Each will have a number of pages devoted to these elections, where coverage prior to, will have less information dedicated to be a review of the history of the games. While, the second publication, having known the election results, will roughly double pages, analyzing the whole day, and what they will assume those results. a. SUNDAY – pre-elections day Being the day of elections, where people still are voting, and the results can not be known even in this pre-election edition, contains five main pages, with the cover, dedicated exclusively to review the history of the main candidates, as well as exposing government plans for this new application.

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It will include a brief survey of estimates so far obtained of potential finalists, a graph of the results of the previous application, a brief survey of the expectations of citizens, opinion columns and reviews section of readers.

a. PAGE CONTENT ANALYSIS

o COVER: In the pre-election cover of this issue, as it is a story from which not even know the final results, and therefore, the importance of this, for now, his treatment will be like any other news more, only adding to the end of the cover, because as the day of voting, is the most important of the day. Therefore, they choose to put the lead story of the day ("German population, also revealed"), accompanied by a picture of ample size to four columns, followed by his narrative summary. Then, in the bottom-left parties, we find a small ad on the cover. The news of the Catalan elections, has been occupying the central part of the lower-left daily, accompanied by a small picture where you can see the voting citizens, and where the story develops such participation.

o PAGE 1: On this page, we find a review of the main political forces of power that exist in Catalonia (CiU and ERC) and whose order of appearance will be followed by its more likely to be candidates for the government, according to encestas when made, will be discussed briefly his career, and exposed, so that readers

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are more present, both offer proposals for Catalonia, whether they are winners in voting. The first news, talk about CiU (Convergence and Union) presenting the main ideas and proposals of his party and the possible settings that would face, as the representative of Catalonia. Will be accompanied by a photograph of the representative leaves the party, Artur Mas. Then a little more than halfway down the page, we find exactly the same internal structure as the one above, but this time, talking about the second power, which would ERC (Republican Left of Catalonia), which also accompany a photo of the main members: Oriol Junqueras, as president, and Marta Rovira as general secretary.

o PAGINA 2: This page is dedicated to the proposals and explications of the secondary parties, which are, PSC (Catalan Social Party); PP (Popular Party); IPV (Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds); C´s (Ciutadans) y CUP (Candidatura d'Unitat Popular). So, this page is divided in five parts, where which one, is for each party explanation. In case of talk about PP, we will include a picture of it, because actually, it is the party which govern in Spain, and at the same time, depending who wins, could means or positive things to Spain or even negative. So the situation between some Catalan parties and the Spanish one, PP, could be hard in term to negotiate or could not. o PAGE 3: This page is going to be divided in two parts: first one, a study as a memory about the last candidature results, with a graphic which includes the situation and the explanation about the possible differences that could happen in some hour, based on the surveys conducted so far, and reminding the alternatives proposed by them.

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And the second part is going to be headed by a big picture about the empty Catalan congress, talking about the expectative, and talking deeply what could happen between Spain and Catalonia relations if each one of the parties won.

o PAGES 4 AND 5: Those two pages are only dedicated to the opinion sections. The fourth is just about columns of the NEW REPORTER journalists and some columnist collaborators, talking about their impressions and opinions about those elections in Catalonia. Is going to include about five or seven different columns. At the bottom, a whole advertisement is going to be positioned. While the last page, the fifth, is going to include some selected readers opinions about that question. Will include nine to twelve views of readers. That one, have an advertisement at the right side of the bottom.

b. MONDAY – before election day

General sketch of page layout of each page dedicated to elections

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o FRONTPAGE: Been today when we know the election results, almost all the mains news are going to be about that issue, so the whole front page of the NEW REPORTER, is about that topic: Catalonian lections results. The structure is simple; we have the election graphic at the top, to the right of the main picture, which will be the picture of the winner. Below of the graphic, we have a simple introduction about the explanation of it, and below the main picture, we begin with the main article, talking about the winners, his political plans, the agreements with the national government, and some details that happened during the Election Day. This is going to be a big article, so at the front page, we just include the introduction of it. Maybe, we could even have an advertisement at the bottom of the front page, very expensive, and very little.

o PAGE 1: The main article is going to be developed in that page, including the whole review about the elections, talking about the winner party, and his points to carry out, the agreements between them and the national party, PP, and what it means to Catalonia and Spain, working each one, and working together. At the bottom, we collect the PP impressions and some commentaries done by PP about that result in Catalonia

o PAGE 2: That second page amplify the first one, including the graphic about the results, comparing with the last elections, and explaining what it could mean to the independence CIU proposal.

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At the middle of the page, with a little picture, we talk about mains points about the winner party against the financial crisis in Catalonia, using if were needed, the top of the third page to expose the conclusion.

o PAGE 3: That one is dedicated to the parties’ pact. Not only the Catalonian parties, also, and as the mainly topic, expose the points in which the national party, PP, and the Catalonian winner, are going to be agree or disagree, and analyze what it could means to the Spanish unity and the government process. Will talks about the second and third parties, and his repercutions after this elections, and his situation compared with the last one.

o PAGE 3 BACK: All this page is to advertisements; one bigger, a second one with medium size, and a third at the bottom little and with some text.

o PAGE 4 AND 5: Includes relevant and curious news about these elections, a little scrutiny about the citizens’ expectations after and before elections and also some of the possible secondary parties’ pacts. Just using the fists half of the fifth page.

o PAGES 5 AND 6: Those pages are dedicated to the analysis of the second parties (ERC [Esquerra Republicana de Catalonia]; PSC [Social Catalonia Party]; PP [Popular Party]) situation and results. May include unless tree pictures: one of each party represented. The order of the apparitions in the pages, depends on the votes results of each party, so the NEWS COVERAGE PLANNING 9

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second one, will have more space, the third one a little bit, and the last one, just the final part of the page.

o PAGE 6 BACK: All this page is dedicated just to advertisements. Will be one big adv. situated on the middle of the page, occupying almost all the page, and just at the bottom, a little adv. at the left side, and next that, a bigger one.

o PAGE 7: Here, the NEW REPORTER is going to include the editorial page, dedicated to the examination of the results in representation of the entire newspaper ideologist, trying to be correct.

o PAGES 8-9: Pages dedicated to the columns of journalist and usual collaborators.

o PAGE 10: Is a page exclusively dedicated to show public surveys carried out after the results, done in Madrid, Barcelona, and Gerona (as principles political conflict areas) to know the percentage of people who agree with the results, and to know what to expect from this mandate. Depending on the deeply of the study, an advertisement could appeared at the left side of the bottom.

o PAGES 11-12: This is finally dedicated to expose the reader’s opinion about the elections results and the possible arising pacts.

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RADIO (FRESHREPORT NETWORK)

The 25th of November is going to be the Catalan Election Day. During all this day trip, our radio network, is going to be informing to our listeners about the situation in Catalonia, how are they preparing the last day, what they expect if any wins, and curiosities like peoples that are from Catalonia, and are living their elections out of there. The specific live program about Catalonia elections will start at 7:30pm, a half an hour before the ballot boxes are closed. During all this time our special program start to introduce the dates like people participation, comparing with the last ones, the principal proposals of the mains parties and what it means respect to Spain and Catalonia relations, and counting as main guest before the elections begins, with Luis del Olmo, and Maria Antonia Iglesias, two very famous radio journalist well known in politics terms, to talk about that introduction in the elections. And at the vote counts hour, at 8:00pm to the end of the live program at 9:30pm, are bind to the discussion table, Pilar Rahola (as a representative of Catalan independence ideology) and Isabel Durán, (as representative of the conservative right) completing the invited team to the live debate. The program is going to be directed by two presenters, where one is going to be me main presenter and the other, may help to the first one, mainly in the moment to receive lives data, and the live connections between the exteriors reporters team. The co presenter is going to be a woman, because the main presenter will be a man. So she will be basically to help him to organize all the program and as support if something is wrong out of the studio (sound, cuts, connections..) The program is going to have between six and seven journalist connecting live that each one will be at each headquarters of the mains parties. The most relevant parties’ which the program considers that could be interesting to cover since their headquarters are: I.

CiU: Convergència i Unió, with Artur Mas as president and characterized by a Centre-right political position ideology that chase the Catalan independence from Spain. They are located in C/ Còrsega, 331333, 08037 Barcelona

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ERC: Esquerra rrepublicana de Catalunya, with Oriol Junqueras as president characterized by a left-wing position, they want the independence too, but

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based in a Republican community, and recognized all around the world as Catalans Countries. They are positioned at C/Calàbria, 166 , 08015 Barcelona

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PSC: Partido de los Socialistas de Catalunya, presided by Pere Navarro and fallow the PSOE ideologist represented in Catalonia, in Centre-left position, and located in C/ Nicaragua, 75-77, 08029 Barcelona

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PPC: Partido Popular Catalan is directed by Alicia Sanchez Camacho, also as the ideology representation of the PP, in the Catalan area. Headquarter: Calle Urgell, 249 Barcelona.

PP: Is the Partido Popular, in itself. The main party, in which the PPC, is integrated. The headquarter, is in Madrid, C/Génova, 13. 28004. And its presided by Mariano Rajoy, current Spanish Prime. The radio network, consider very interesting to send one reporter to that point to cover the reactions and speciation in live, that they are going to live during the elections.

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PSOE: Is also, the Partido Socialista itself, presided now, by Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba. Situated in Madrid too. We consider very interesting again, to send a reporter to cover in live the situation and speciation there, as the headquarter PP. Located in C/ Ferraz, 70. 28008 Madrid

Our special reported, before and after the results are known, will send some quotes cuts by Mariano Rajoy, (PP president), and Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba (the PSOE president), talking about relevant questions like if you would like to win either party, and that would mean for Spain and Catalonia. Then, the will decided where to play that cuts during the debates, selected by the co presenter. During the votes recount (starting at 8:00pm), and after doing the first live connection with each reporter, the presenter, will announced the official twitter of the program, with the correspondent hugs tag, so that people can ask during the debate and ask time dedicated to each connection. After the first connection, and between each one, the presenter and co presenter, are going to take some relevant points quoted, and will open a little short discussion of no more than ten minutes each with a couple of questions or issues to highlight by the presenter. NEWS COVERAGE PLANNING 12

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The program will be connecting with all the areas and journalist send there, in order, to describe the situation, and during those connections, the experts invited, could ask some relevant question and also answer some of the twitter question sent, that they may think could interest the audience. When the results be announced, the last half hour is going to be divided: the first fifteen- twelve minutes, are going to listen the winner speech, and make, if it would be possible, some live connections with our reported send, and ask to some relevant member. The last part of the program will be dedicated to the presenters and the invited expert to start a debate, talking about the possible benefits and problems that it could mean to Spain as country, and will end with a little conclusion done by the presenters.

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TV SPECIAL PROGRAM (BN CHANNEL) This year, the next 25th of November, will be a very important day to Catalonia, that could determinate his future as independent territory from Spain, or just stay in a “want but I can’t” situation in the middle on the road of “his dream” as an independence state. During this entire voting day trip, we want to offer as informative channel, a special edition, where we will cover all the elections, providing exclusive content like interviews with key representative figures of the Spanish government like Mariano Rajoy (as Spanish prime), Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba (as the second powerful Spanish party), and Artur Mas (as the Catalan first power), while offer on live the situation and the graphics of the recounts. We are going to explain all the Catalans parties proposal, how they prepared the last day, what the Catalans, Spanish citizens and government expects, and what they prefer, and how are living those elections the rest of the country. This specific live program about Catalonia elections will start at 7:00pm one hour before the ballot boxes are closed, to have enough time to introduce to the audience all the aspect involves in that elections in political aspect like economy, international relations, governments pacts, how could it help or increase the financial crisis... During all this time our special program start to introduce the dates like people participation, comparing with the last ones, the principal proposals of the mains parties and what it means respect to Spain and Catalonia relations This special, will be directed by Sussana Griso, a very popular journalist and tv presenter, that is going to guide all the program, and will moderate the debates times. She is going to be helped by another journalist, Ana Pastor, who is another recognize journalist and news presenter, but just charged to explain the tree graphics that we are going to show to our spectators: the first one talking about the last elections results; the second, about people speciation’s (subdivided in two: one only about Catalans speciation’s, and other about the rest of Spanish citizens speciation’s); and the third and last one, would be shown when the final results was known, and comparing with the previous one. MAIN DEBATE AREA

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standing by Ana Pastor the graphics information in a big screen. From the entire program we are going to have a special guest very well known in the political area, both Catalan and Spanish. They are going to be the whole special, mostly for two things: one is just to express a personal opinion, and the other, to debate, the mains points marked by the presenter, in his specific time dedicated just to debate.

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The special guest are, Quim Monzó ( a Catalan writer and journalist); Juan José Millás (a famous writer and political journalist); Pepa Bueno (a journalist and news magazine presenter) and Mercedes Milá (a very known journalist, Catalan, very controversial and defending the unity between Spain and Catalonia). To offer all this content and live reports, we are going to count with a crew as special correspondents, which are going to be divided each one, in the mains headquarters of each party that is going to be represented on the elections. Each team consists of two integrands: the camera, and the reporter. So may have twelve sent reporters to each group. They are going to be sent to the main headquarters, which are: I.

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ERC: Esquerra rrepublicana de Catalunya, with Oriol Junqueras as president characterized by a left-wing position, they want the independence too, but based in a Republican community, and recognized all around the world as Catalans Countries. They are positioned at C/Calàbria, 166 , 08015 Barcelona

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PPC: Partido Popular Catalan is directed by Alicia Sanchez Camacho, also as the ideology representation of the PP, in the Catalan area. Headquarter: Calle Urgell, 249 Barcelona.

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The structure of the programs is going to depend on the duration of the final votes until the ballot boxes are closed, the duration of the recounts, and the announcement of the winner and the main speeches done by the first, second and third finalist parties. It will be between two hours and a half, or three. So, the start time of the special will be 7 to 10 pm: A. HOUR 7 TO 8: The first hour is going to be dedicated, as we said, to make an introductions of all the essays involves in that elections; the presentation of the whole content of the program; the introduction of special guests and the first live connections with the correspondents, to show the atmosphere in the last minutes of the votes and tell relevant news happened there. All the ballot boxes have closed, and begin the official vote count. The first graphic is shows; and the exclusive interview to Mariano Rajoy, is shows. Sussana start the first debate about the graphic and Mariano´s opinion B. HOUR 8 TO 9: The second part is going to be divided in: i. 8 to 8.15: The second graphic is shows. During the first fifteen minutes, the connection is going to be on live viewing and commenting what is happening at the beginning of the counts. These fifteen minutes, Sussana start the second after broadcast the second exclusive interview to Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba. The debate about we are watching, and commenting their ideas. ii. 8.15 to 8.30: The third and final interview to Artur Mas, one of the Catalans representatives is shows; the debate begins. iii. 8.30 to 9: The final results are now, published. We connect in live whit the winner headquarters, and then we connect with all the three next parties, according to the order they have been in NEWS COVERAGE PLANNING 16

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the ratings. The rest parties, wouldn’t be in live, so, just will be shots comments about the results. C. HOUR 9 to 9.30: The third and final graphic is shows, analyzed and compared with the last two. Sussana exposes the final debate about the results, what it means, what is going to happened between Catalans independence, what will be the relations with Spain, and Europe before that,… We make the connection on live to listening the president parties’ speech. D. HOUR 9.30 to 10: Shots comments about the loser speeches. They connect with the sent reporters to know how they are closing. Sussana expose the final conclusions and ask for the pros and contras that this result could have. And they close the special program.

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ONLINE (THE NEW REPORTER)-DIGITAL EDITION According with the New Reporter newspaper, this will be the organization of the digital edition, on live. Being a online source, this “live” meaning would be even faster thant the print version because work online allow us to refresh all the information almas on live, just with a few minutes of delay that our reporters are writing the information while it is happening. The structure will be simple: the New Reporter online will have a section just dedicated in real time to the Catalans elections, that it will be announced on the front page. As we will have reported sent to cover the elections, to the mains areas ( CiU, ERC, PSC, PP headquarters; two reporter to each one), they will be recollecting information to the print edition, and at the same time the other mate, will be uploading the same information in almost real time to the online version. While the reporter sent to cover the print version has to go to the redaction to prepare the both editions of the newspaper, the online mates, stays there, working online. The final online structure would be something like this:

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