Wednesday 8 November 2017

News Values

In 1965, researchers analysed international news stories in order to see the top news 'agenda'. It led to the creation of the list known as 'news values'- a scoring system. It was created by Gultung and Ruge.

There are eight news values listed:

Threshold- the bigger the impact and reach of a story

Unexpectedness- no one expects news to happen, shock effect

Negativity- a bad, depressing depiction on a story, results in more interest

Elite persons/places- about important people or powerful nations

Unambiguous- story with little confusion that is easy to understand and to report

Personalisation- give human interest, showing personal stories

Proximity- the distance from the story, closer you are the more interest shown

Continuity/currency- stories already in the news that can be updated

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