{"id":2695,"date":"2012-01-02T10:31:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T10:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/?p=2695"},"modified":"2012-02-03T16:52:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T16:52:46","slug":"john-cravens-newsround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/john-cravens-newsround\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cravens Newsround"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- skool-response -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>John Cravens Newsround is one of the first news programmes that you may ever of seen while growing up. Today we take a few minutes to find out more about\u00a0John Cravens Newsround and how and why the man himself started the newsround off for younger viewers of the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>From the outset, the idea of it was it should bring news to the children.<\/p>\n<p>Today John Craven is known fFrom country file and\u00a0journalism or eben Saturday morning Swap Shop, but he got his big break on his Newsround Show.<\/p>\n<p>From the age of 11 John Craven reported on heroes from post war\u00a0childhood.<br \/>\nJohn Craven was into nature and wildlife from his radio days. By\u00a01958 he made his guest appearance on the Sunday Break. This provided\u00a0teenage stardom for him instanlty and this is where he got his initial break.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JsCxEM1nAEg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JsCxEM1nAEg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>In late 60s John Craven\u00a0broke into local news reporting and soon into the BBC daily news programme Nationwide. Noting that children found the 9 o&#8217;clock news he decided to<br \/>\nhelp school children understand current affairs with a studio full of\u00a0children the show was called Search.<\/p><div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:5px 0 5px 0; text-align:center;\">\nskool\r\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>How\u00a0John Cravens Newsround was born<\/h2>\n<p>At the time BBC childrens department wanted a programme that could present<br \/>\nstraight forward news for kids. The team needed all the news\u00a0facilities to provide details for the early news slot. The name &#8220;John Cravens Newsround&#8221;\u00a0came from the idea that kids had a \u00a0Paper-round so\u00a0here was a newsround belonging to John, John Cravens Newsround.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2696\" title=\"John-Cravens-Newsround\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/John-Cravens-Newsround.jpg\" alt=\"John Cravens Newsround\" width=\"500\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/John-Cravens-Newsround.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/John-Cravens-Newsround-160x127.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/John-Cravens-Newsround-300x238.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/John-Cravens-Newsround-377x300.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The aim was for journalist as well as John to explain the news\u00a0so a 9 year old could understand it. Quite a challenge for a\u00a0presenter. Kids trusted him and felt safe with his warmth and authority.\u00a0Newsround was shown daily at 5 oclock and explained teenage violence,\u00a0issues in northern Ireland. Even capture of the Yorkshire ripper was shown as a way of making kids feel safer. Education\u00a0of aids, war orphans and explaining war conflicts a tricky balance of\u00a0fact with simplification.<\/p>\n<p>He managed to provide breaking news sometimes. The Pope being shot was a\u00a0massive scoop for the Newsround team as there were no 24 hour news channels in those days.<\/p>\n<p>When on location they had a revised\u00a0programme called john cravens newsround extra. Interviewing Mother\u00a0Teresa were all big scoops for the newsround extra team. Reporting on Chinas giant panda in the 70s was also a memory for many Newsround\u00a0viewers. That always had an amusing piece of news with it&#8217;s &#8220;and\u00a0finally&#8221; where you get a man bathing in spaghetti\u00a022nd June 1989 was the last john cravens newsround news after 17\u00a0years. 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