2. What is soft news?
They’re longer and often written as a feature stories.
Its more to entertain then to inform. They usually don’t
contain any important information that would come in
handy, but different facts that are interesting to read.
Different examples:
• Human interest
• Art
• Entertainment
• Health
• Education
3. What is hard news?
They’re factual and aim to inform. The hard news contain up-to-date
information, so news that come in from today and not from
2 weeks ago.
These types of news consist of important facts that should be
heard to inform everyone on what’s happening to the world of
now.
Different types of hard news:
• Politics
• Economics
• Business
• Conflicts and wars
• Crimes and courts
• accidents
4. What is worthy of a news?
NEWS
Timeliness
An event that
happened now
would be news
but news from a
week ago would
old.
For something to be news worthy they would need to go
through the news value, which are:
Proximity
How distance the
events is
Bad news
News that often include
conflicts and tragedy which
involves human being
Entertainment
Animal stories
Humour stories
Children stories
Stories that are fun to read
Celebrities/elites
Recent events that
involve famous
people, good or bad
its still news.
Powerful/popular like
America would be
considered news.
Impact
More people
infected/affected would be
newsworthy.
