2.  The pair analysed international news stories to discover what factors all
these news stories had in common and what factors placed them at the
top of the news agenda worldwide. They came up with the following
list of news values: -
 Immediacy: Has it happened recently?
 Familiarity: Does it mean something to us where we live?
 Amplitude: Is it a big event?
 Frequency: Is it something that has happened fairly quickly?
 Unambiguity: Is it clear?
 Predictability: Do we expect it to happen?
 Surprise: is it a rare or unexpected event?
 Continuity: Is it a running story?
 Elite Nations: Does it concern well-known people?
 Personalisation: Is it personal?
 Negativity: Is it bad news?
 Exclusivity: Are we the only newspaper to have this story?
 Visual Impact: Is there really a strong Image?
 Balance: Is it being used to counterbalance other stories?

3. Significant news Does not have a lot
value in terms of of news value takes
space consumed a little space
Elite People: Unambiguity:
Power person shows limited
treated as being
meaning of cows
important
Composition so not
all stories are bad
Personalisation: Meaningful:
Actions of the WARNING/
individual THREAT to
our culture
Negativity: bad
news of Unexpected:
policeman main police harassing
story because woman
it’s shocking
Holds a lot of newspaper looking at the
space consumed

4. Elite people:
ROYALTY
Immediacy Amplitude: it’s
: happened a big event
thousands have
recently turned up
Familiarity:
Visual: Strong Happening
image of where we live
togetherness (UK)
Visual: Strong Other news: less
image (contrast) significant
child & adult smaller website
breaks barrier
space
Continuity:
same story Personalisatio
different area n: those who
within the take interest
website
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