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Thursday, November 8, 2018

Newspapers- News Values


Gate keeping- term applied in editing and filtering process where decisions are made to let some information ' pass through'

News Values- choosing which news stories in form a scoring system of stories. Majority of publisists use same scale

Threshold 
Unexpectedness 
Negativity 
Elite persons/places 
Unambiguous 
Personalisation 
Proximity 
Continuity/currency 
The bigger the impact and reach of the story 
An event that is a shock or out of the ordinary 
Bad news is more interesting 'if it bleeds, it lead< 
Stories about important people and powerful nations 
Stories that are easy to understand and for papers to 
report on 
Stories that include human interest — 'real' people 
Stories that are closer to home are more likely to be 
included 
Stories that are already in the news continue to run 
and are updated

ACROYMN

Newspaper- NEWS VALUES

C- Continuity/currency (stories that are already in the news continue to run and are uploaded)
U- Unambiguous
P- Personalisation
P- Proximity
T- Threshold
U- Unexpectedness
N- Negativity
E- Elite persons/ places (stories about important people and powerful nations)




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