News value's

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News value's
News values are the factors defined by Galtung and Ruge, which help to explain how journalists and editors decided that certain news stories and images were accepted as newsworthy, while others were not. These values applied these factors to news stories in newspapers as well as being applied to radio news bulletins. 
Examples of news values goes as followed:

Immeadiacy - Has it happend recently? Is the story "breaking"
These kind of stories often make it to the front pages of news papers, or the top of a radio news bulletin 



Elite people - Does the story concern well known people, such as celebrities?
Newspapers (e.g. tabloids such as The Sun, The Mirror, The Star), radio stations (e.g. capital or kiss) and television news broadcasting (E News) are all swayed by stories including this kind of news value 














Conflict - Does the story contain drama in describing disagreements, arguments fights or battles between 2 or more people/organisations?
Most news stories you read will contain this news value 





Suprise - Is it an unusual or unexpected event?
Suprise is a news value which tends to make news stories more popular and interesting to read. It can relate to positive and negative reports






Negativity - Is it bad news?
News papers and bulletins are often packed with a lot of upsetting and bad news stories




Familiarity - is it geographically or culturally close to us in Europe/Britain/London/the USA?
Local news coverage is more prominent with this news value  


Amplitude - does the news event involve a large amount of people?

Impact - Can we identify with the story as having a profound effect on our lives? Does the story contain elements that would make us feel threatened? 
This news value often pushes the stories higher up the news agenda 



Frequency - does this event happen often 


Predictability - did we expect this news event to happen?





Continuity - Is the news story already part of an lone-running or ongoing story? Has the story already been defined as news? Often there will be 'breaking news' elements to a story, which has already been defined as news. 
A lot of news stories contain continuity as a news value. Although, this means that usually this story will be further down the news agenda. 




Personalisation - Is it a human interest story, often sob stories 
These stories often provide an emotional response from the audience
This news value is often the most frequent as usually a larger percentage of the audience can relate to them 





Scandal - Is this news story likely to provoke a moral outrage from part of the audience
This news value often involves members of society in high positions or elite people and features high up on the news agenda 




Balance - The news story may be selected to balance other news articles e.g. human survival stories in order to balance a number of other news stories all concerning death
Uusally 'bad news' stories dominate the bulletin and the 'good news' stories are found towards the end





 Determining which of the news values are in which stories will help me when I am choosing which of my own stories to include that I have created. 

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