The document discusses news values and what makes a story newsworthy. It identifies several common news values that increase the likelihood of a story being reported, such as continuity, familiarity, elite persons, negativity, conflict, unexpectedness, personalization, and consonance. It provides examples of news stories that contain multiple news values. The document also discusses Harcup's expanded taxonomy of news values, which includes power elite, celebrity, entertainment, surprise, bad news, good news, magnitude, relevance, follow-ups, and news agenda.