Although consideration of news reporting as narrative already has a considerably history and is nowadays hardly controversial (Sperry, 1981; Bell, 1999; Liebes, 1994; Langer, 1998; Hickethier, 2000; Dunn, 2005; Machill et al., 2006), methods for engaging specifically with their <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">audiovisual</hi> non-verbal properties remain limited. Analyses addressing the audiovisual are overwhelmingly based on small datasets and, as is usual within the humanities, are performed interpretatively. Consequently, just how widespread ‘narrativization’ strategies are, and to what effect and aims they are being applied, urgently demands in depth and larger-scale research from within the digital humanities.