Here we select some of the most commonly discussed narrative features in news that contribute to highlighting individual stories, a technique that can effectively increase the viewers' memories of news contents and their perception of news severity (Aust & Zillmann, 1996; Zillmann & Brosius, 2012) <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="color(FF0000)" xml:space="preserve">. </hi>We examine whether and how these features are presented in both public and online alternative news channels. In particular, we consider how these features are employed to individualise, personalise or emotionalise people shown in news videos. In other words, we seek to operationalise just what constitutes the narrative strategy of <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">individualisation</hi> so that we can explore how the strategy is used across our selected news channels.