The document discusses and compares two news stories: the discovery of a missing 4-year old girl in Greece, and the celebrity phone hacking scandal in the UK. The story of the missing girl received high priority as her identity and nationality were unknown. The phone hacking story had been ongoing but lacked new information. Both stories generated follow-up reporting, such as court cases for journalists in the phone hacking scandal and speculation about other missing children in the girl's case. The stories were of human interest as they involved public participation, but newsrooms could only report facts without personal opinions due to policy.

1. Ethic and News Values
The twos stories I’m looking at are the recent story of a missing 4 year old girl found in
Greece and the celebrity phone hacking scandal. The story involving a 4 year old girl found
in Greece was of high story priority and it hit headlines all over the world, as police were
unsure of who her real parents were and what nationality she belonged to. The story was
also of high priority in the UK due to the fact that it could have been Madeline McCann. The
phone hacking scandal would tend to fall behind the story involving the four year old girl as
the story had been in the news for a while already and had no new follow up information.
The news of the 4 year old girl who had been found spread across the world
immediately as the hunt to find out where the young girl had come from needed to be
solved quickly. However the phone hacking scandal was brought to the public’s attention bit
by bit and at times would not be the main focus of the news. Both stories had created
follow up stories, with the celebrity phone hacking scandal we then found out that it wasn’t
just celebrities being hacked but also high profile police case victims such as Millie Dowler as
her voice mail had been hacked.
The news has since been filled with information about court trials involving journalists that
have been accused of phone hacking. With the missing 4 year old girl follow up stories have
included things such as the possibility that missing Ben Needham who went missing as a
toddler abroad could have also been taken by travellers. Both stories were ofhuman
interest as one was mainly focused on the police appeal to help find out information about
the young girl who was found in Greece. The phone hacking scandal was also in the human
interest as it meant that members of the public were able to decide how far they thought
journalist could go to create or get information on story whether or not it was a celebrity or
a missing school girl.
Different newspapers had created different
follow up angles for example in regards to
the missing girl The Daily Mail looked into
how the traveller lifestyle and how they
lived in Greece.
Whereas The Guardian followed up the
angle of unofficial adoption.
With both stories in the news the
public are able to talk and give their
opinions on the stories which meant that

2. the stories were in the public interest agenda. However
newsroom policy meant that news readers themselves or
indeed the news station such as ‘Sky News’ are unable to
share their own opinions on the story and can only reveal
facts.
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