In an ongoing BMBF project on FakeNarratives<ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="1" target="ftn1" />, we combine expertise, experience and tools crucial for making general advances towards these goals, practically directed at a soundly delimited and, at the same time, socially significant class of audiovisual artifacts: TV news. We address the research hypothesis that news of this kind increasingly employs strategies of <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">audiovisual narrative</hi> that may undercut, undermine or construct ideological positions and evaluations of news content <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">independently</hi> of what may be simply stated, for example, in accompanying spoken text. The increasing sophistication and technical possibilities available to news channels makes it possible to draw on techniques for storytelling well established in film, but this can by no means always be guaranteed to work as intended. Indeed, filmic storytelling techniques may also serve to more effectively dis-inform.