Lecture - News Values

This lecture was quite interesting here we discussed the meaning of news values, threats and the future for news values.
News values is the degree of prominence a media outlet gives out and the result / attention given by the audience.
News Values are the following:
1. Impact
2. Audience identification
3. Pragmatics
4. Source influence
"News journalism has a broadly agreed set of values, often referred to as newsworthiness." A. Boyd (1994)


FORMAT OF NEWS DELIVERY
Most newsworthy information ---> Important details ---> Other general information ---> Background information.


NEWSWORTHINESS: THE FACTORS

1.  Negativity - should carry bad news not only the good.
2. Closeness to home - News should be geographically close to audience and talk about people.
3. Recency - Breaking news
4. Currency - news must be valuable
5. Continuity - must be prolonging news.
6. Uniqueness - news should be unusual
7. Simplicity - delivered in a simple and easy to understand format
8. Personality - News should carry a kind of personality
9. Size - Should be of appropriate size.
10. Exclusivity - News should be exclusive.