This document discusses different types of news. Soft news includes feature stories that aim to entertain rather than just inform, covering topics like human interest, art, and health. Hard news contains important factual information on politics, business, conflicts, and crimes that aims to inform readers. For a story to be considered news worthy, it must meet certain criteria like being timely, proximate, having impact or involving celebrities/powerful people.

1. The concept
behind news

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.