Wednesday, 20 November 2019

News Values

News Values

  • Continuity - Stories that run eg. Brexit, Elections, NHS
  • Unambiguous - Easy to understand 
  • Personalisation - Human interest / real people eg. Baby Layton Daily Mirror
  • Proximity - Close to home eg. Manchester bombing 
  • Threshold - Bigger impact and reach of story
  • Unexpectedness - Shocking /  Out of ordinary stories
  • Negativity - "If it bleeds, it leads" bad news is more interesting
  • Elite people / places - Important people / nations eg. US, Russia, China

Extra term:

Gate-keeping
- decision on what to publish ; editing and filtering process -

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