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- 1. What makes a News Story Newsworthy?
- 2. Harold Evans Former Times and Sunday Time editor, Harold Evans, stated that a news story…
- 3. Galtung and Ruge- News Values The most well known lists of news values are those of the media researchers Johan Galtung and Marie Holmboe Ruge. They analysed a range of international news stories, in order to find out what aspects these new stories had in common, and which aspects placed them at the top of the news agenda worldwide. The pair came up with a scoring system, as such, that if a news story scores highly in each value, then it will be at the start of the news program or make it on the front page of a newspaper. The arranged the different values into 3 categories: Impact Audience identification Pragmatics of media coverage
- 4. Impact The Impact category consists of the values: Threshold- the bigger the impact the story has, the people it affects and therefore the more extreme the effect or the more money or resources it involves. Frequency- events which occur suddenly are more readily reported than those that occur gradually or that are long term trends. Negativity- it’s obvious that bad news is more exciting than good news. Stories to do with death, violence, natural disasters etc… are always rated more than positive stories due to the fact they are more likely to score high on other news values. Unexpectedness- if an event is abnormal then it is more likely that it will make the news more than normal, day to day events. Unambiguity- events that are easy to understand and are open to more than one interpretation are more likely to be shown on the news as they are easily grassed and discussed.
- 5. Audience Identification Audience Identification is made up of four main points, which are: Personalisation- stories which are focused solely on a person receive a lot of coverage, even more so if it is a well known person. This is purely because of the simple fact than people are interested in other people. Meaningfulness- this is based around the idea of cultural promixty; stories which allow the audience to relate receive more attention. Reference to elite nations- stories which are based on global powers, receive a lot of coverage from the media. Also, countries which have similar culture to their own country receive much attention. Reference to elite persons- the media are focus hugely on the rich, powerful and famous people.
- 6. Pragmatics of Media Coverage Pragmatics of media coverage have three key points: Consonance- stories that are compatible with the medias expectations get more coverage than those stories that contravene them. Continuity- stories which have a momentum to them and is a running story will have a lot of coverage. Composition- similar stories compete with each other for news coverage in order for variety.