The document outlines several news values that researchers identified as factors that influence whether an international news story is considered highly newsworthy. The news values described include immediacy, familiarity, amplitude, frequency, unambiguity, predictability, surprise, continuity, involving elite nations or people, personalization, negativity, exclusivity, and visual impact. Balance is also listed as another news value in considering how stories are selected and presented together.

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? Is it new?
 Familiarity: Does it mean something to us where we live? Can we relate to it?
 Amplitude: Is it a big event? Does it involve many people?
 Frequency: Is it something that has happened fairly quickly?
 Unambiguity: Is it clear? Are the results/effects obvious?
 Predictability: Do we expect it to happen? Is it predictable?
 Surprise: is it a rare or unexpected event?
 Continuity: Is it a running story? Has it already been defined as news?
 Elite Nations: Does it concern well-known people?
 Personalisation: Is it personal or human interest story?
 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. Personalisation: Actions of
the individual because the
story effects people like us
and gives us that ‘wow’
sense of feeling.
Elite People: Powerful
person treated as being
important and significant to
our culture and a person that
will interest the audience
Negativity: bad news of
policeman main story
because it’s shocking
however due to the bad
news it is good news for
the audience because it
makes the story more
interesting and gives the
demographic an incentive
to read on
Unambiguity: shows
limited meaning of cows,
this could be appealing to
the audience because it is
so different and unusual
and builds up excitement
for them to read on.
Meaningful: In this
case the splash given
us a warning and it
creates a sense of
danger within the
culture
Unexpected: The splash is
unexpected story which makes
the audience surprised and
builds up a sense of enigma,
audience will wonder why did
the cop do that? How? This
builds up excitement and
introduces audience
participation mentally.
Composition: A balance of
positive and negative
stories giving the
audience a range of stories
to read about also gives
the audience ‘choice’
Takes up a lot of room within the newspapers and shows
the superiority of this splash and urging the audience to
be alerted about this story.
Does not have a lot of
news value takes a little
space so it emphasises
it’s inferiority
Significant news value
in terms of space
consumed, emphases
on the superiority of
this story in this
newspaper

4. Immediacy:
happened
recently so the
audience are
given up to date
news providing
the facts to them
giving them a
reason to
continously pick
the newspaper
up
Familiarity: it is
happening where we
live (UK) and we can
relate to it in
welcoming the
duchess of Cambridge
Amplitude: it’s a big
event thousands have
turned up so it involves
a lot of people within
the our country so it
addresses proximity
Elite people: In this
case it is royalty as the
royal family play a big
part within our culture
and influences are
culture
Visual: Strong
image of
togetherness also
has a huge
significance
within our culture
implementing
togetherness
Other news: less
significant smaller
website space, hold
smaller news values
in contrasted to the
splash
Visual: Strong
image (contrast)
child & adult
breaks barrier also
juxtaposition
Continuity: we
witness same story
within a different area
within the website
showing its continuity
and also it’s
superiotiy regarding
the importance of the
story
Unambiguity: We are not
told why he has been given
praise making the cover
story unambigous so it
creates more excitement
for the reader and also
attracts the readers
attention