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News Values

The document discusses several news values that help determine how newsworthy a story is, including impact, timeliness, prominence, proximity, bizarreness, conflict, and currency. Impact refers to the number of people affected by an event. Timeliness means recent events are prioritized over older ones. Prominence gives more value to stories involving famous people. Proximity favors local stories over distant ones. Bizarreness makes unusual events newsworthy. Conflict, such as strife, also increases newsworthiness. Currency refers to topics currently in the public spotlight.

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News Values
Currency Conflict Bizarreness Proximity Prominence Timeliness Impact News Values
Impact The number of people whose lives will be influenced in some way by the subject of the story. For instance, the Asian Tsunami had more impact than a local flood.
Timeliness Recent events have higher news value than earlier happenings. Of particular value are stories brought to the public ahead of the competition. These are known as scoops.
Prominence For the same occurrence, people in the public eye have higher news value than obscure people. For example, Tom Cruise jumps on a couch because he’s got a new girlfriend and everybody’s interested. A big name basketballer has AIDS, everyone knows a child in Africa has AIDS, nobody cares
Proximity Stories about events and situations in one's home community are more newsworthy than events that take place far away. For instance: if 100 people drown in a flood in a faraway country, the story has about the same news value as a story describing how 10 people drowned in Guangzhou. In turn, that 10 person story has about the same news value as a story concerning 1 drowning victim within Hong Kong.
Bizarreness The wierdness of an event can make it newsworthy. ‘Dog bites man’ usually is not news, but ‘man bites dog’ is more bizarre.
Conflict Strife is newsworthy. The old newspaper adage ‘if it bleeds it leads’ rules. I you think I’m being cynical – what has led news broadcasts for the last 4 years?
Currency More value is attributed to stories pertaining to issues or topics that are in the spotlight of public concern rather than to issues or topics about which people care less. Stories come and stories go. For example: In 1997, the death of Princess Diana, the Hong Kong handover, Pathfinder on Mars, cloning, McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing, and Big Tobacco money. In 1999, JFK Jr. died in a plane crash, the Clinton impeachment trial, Microsoft monopoly, war over Kosovo, Columbine school shooting, and The Millennium, followed In the 2000s by 9/11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. ?