This list has been added to and much discussed but allows a framework for discussion of what affects the news agenda.
We will look at some stories
Identify the audiences for these newspapers
You will take a story from the news and apply it to each of these news values
1.Frequency short-term events like murders are preferred over long-term developments like a famine
2.Threshold the size of an event
3.Unambiguity ability to process the story and make the audience understand it
4.Meaningfulness how it relates to a specific audience in terms of cultural proximity - in which the event agrees with the outlook of a specific culture or relevance - where events will be reported and discussed if they seem to have an impact on the ‘home’ culture, especially a threat
5.Consonance or ‘correspondence’ where the familiar is more likely to be thought than the unfamiliar
6.Unexpectedness - or ‘surprise’ where it is the rarity of an event which leads to its circulation in the public domain;
7.Continuity once a story achieves importance will be continued to be covered for some time
8.Composition - this is to provide a sense of balance, gloomy news with good news, foreign with domestic.
9.Reference to elite nations events are more likely to be reported if they occur in the developed world; the threshold system would apply for developing countries’ events to be reported
10.Reference to elite persons - the famous and the powerful are more newsworthy than ordinary people
11.Personalisation - events are seen as actions of people as individuals; an institution may be personalised by reference to a prominent person within that organisation
12.Negativity - bad news is good for the press and TV news; the threshold is much lower for bad news than for good news
Find a story in your group and present it using the above to analyse news values
News values change depending on the audience
Identify the different audiences for the following news media;
Al Jazeera
BBC
Vice.com
Fox News
Newsround
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