News values prioritize impactful stories that affect many people, negative or conflicting stories, and those that are new, unusual, or close to the audience. Other factors that increase newsworthiness include timeliness, relevance to current issues, and stories that elicit human emotion through odd or interesting angles about ordinary individuals.

1. News Values!

2. Impact
Has a significance to the
society, community and
great effect on the
listeners.

3. Negativity
This is bad news which always
makes good news for the editor.

4. Ordinary
Is taken for granted this is news
that's not something special and
the ordinary.

5. Timelessness
Is Events that happened recently or people
who are current and tend to generally be
more newsworthy. Its what hot/ trendy/
new right now!

6. Proximity
Any story that's close to
you geographically or
personally.

7. Conflict
Events and people that
feature conflict tend to be
more newsworthy.

8. Currency
Is newsworthy and about
an issue in the public
eye.

9. Oddity
Is news that is weird or
unusual and not the
norm.

10. Human Interest
Is stories that play to human
emotions that can be newsworthy
about ordinary people.