This document discusses news values and factors that influence news selection. It identifies 12 news values according to an analysis by J. Galtung and M. Ruge: frequency, size and scale, predictability, proximity, demand, unexpectedness, rarity, continuity, elite nations, elite people, human interest, and negativity. It also provides examples of top news stories from 2016-2017 and asks readers to rank them and match them to the news values. Finally, it outlines tasks for a school newspaper article, including researching primary and secondary sources, interview techniques, and embedding content into Prezi to share on a blog.

4. News Values
•STARTER: What stories have made the news recently?
Write down three stories you were aware of this
weekend?
•+++ Why do you think these stories have made the
news? Why have they been considered newsworthy?
•LO: To consider the decisions on the selection
and prioritising of news by media gatekeepers

5. An analysis by J. Galtung and M. Ruge said that
there are 12 factors that influence news selection.
These are known as news values.
1. Frequency – Long term event reported on regularly
2. Size and scale – Bigger the event the more likely it is to be reported
on
3. Predictability – An event that was expected to happen or anticipated
4. Closeness to home [proximity] – Has relevance to Britain or could
affect British people in some way
5. Demand – An event we want to happen eg. Royal/celebrity wedding
6. Unexpectedness – Events that happen without a warning
Brexit negotiations
Trump vs Kim Jong Un Violence at a far-right demonstration
Merseyrail train strikes … UK among dead in a plane crash
World Cup 2018
Pet Detectives to use drones to track down lost dogs

6. An analysis by J. Galtung and M. Ruge said that there are 12 factors that
influence news selection. These are known as news values.
• 7. Rarity – Something not predicted
• 8. Continuity – An ongoing story that has high news values
• 9. Elite nations – Stories that involve powerful countries (political or
financial)
• 10. Elite people – Involves someone people can relate to/admire in the
public eye
• 11. Ordinary people [human interest] – Story about an ordinary person
that might represent an issue or someone that provokes
sympathy/approval/disapproval
• 12. Negativity [bad news] Bad news sells
Japanese Tsunami
Maddie McCann … Diana
Death … Transfer sagas
Trump argues with Mexico over border
David Beckham gets new tattoo. Kate Middleton goes shopping.
Volunteer knits hats for premature babies
Murder of Rhys Jones

7. Top news stories of the year 2016/early 2017
• 1. The Queen turns 90
• 2. Pokemon Go launched in the UK
• 3. Italian earthquake kills 300
• 4. Britain leaves the European Union
• 5. Donald Trump wins the American presidential
election
• 6. Kim Kardashian is robbed at gunpoint in Paris
• 7. Killer clown craze sweeps the UK in the run up to
Halloween
• 8. Sadiq Khan becomes Mayor of London
• 9. England Manager quits after just one game
• 10. Oscar Best Picture award mix up
TASKS:
1.Which do you
think are the most
important? Can
you put them in a
rank order 1-10?
2.Now match each
of the stories to
the news values

8. Top news stories of the year 2016/early 2017
• 4. Britain leaves the European Union
• 5. Donald Trump wins the American presidential
election
• 3. Italian earthquake kills 300
• 8. Sadiq Khan becomes Mayor of London
• 6. Kim Kardashian is robbed at gunpoint in Paris
• 9. England Manager quits after just one game
• 2. Pokemon Go launched in the UK
• 7. Killer clown craze sweeps the UK in the run up to
Halloween
• 1. The Queen turns 90
• 10. Oscar Best Picture award mix up
TASKS:
1.Which do you
think are the most
important? Can
you put them in a
rank order 1-10?
2.Now match each
of the stories to
the news values

9. P4 – Title – Research and plan content for an
original article
• You will demonstrate your understanding of news gathering techniques via body of research that
shows planning using both primary and secondary sources
• Task 1 : Sub title: News Values
• Write a brief half page summary of the story you would like to cover.
• Covering each of Galtang and Ruge’s 9 bulletpoints, state how or why this story would meet them.
• Discuss how you will present this information especially as it is for a school newspaper.
• Explain how your story COULD cause moral panic through Hyperbole, Emotive language,
Superlatives and images.
• State how you intend to avoid causing your young target audience a sense of moral panic, would
be good to hear the sorts of things you could say but won’t
• State how you will get the information you will need to get across to them. How will you do this
without causing panic
• We are going to use Prezi for this which will be
embedded onto your blog

10. P4 – Title – Research and plan content for an
original article
• Task 2: Subtitle: Primary and Secondary research
• Identify a list of where your primary sources could come from,
surveys, focus groups, interviews, experts etc
• Identify a place where you might send a survey / conduct an
interview
• Actually conduct the research and add all primary questions/sources
to this section of the Prezi.
• You will need to convince your editor that you have been thorough –
You will have to use appropriate interviewees for this piece and
conduct a useful survey. You will have to justify your choices later.

11. P4 – Title – Research and plan content for an
original article
• Task 2: Subtitle: Primary and Secondary research
• Identify a list of where your secondary sources could come from,
articles, books, interviews already out there, experts views etc
• Conduct this research and add all secondary sources to this section of
the Prezi
• You will need to state all the secondary evidence you have found in
detail
• You will need to cause your editor that you have been thorough.

12. P4 – Title – Research and plan content for an
original article
• Task 3: Subtitle – Interview techniques
• Conduct some primary source interviews. Film them or write them,
get it online and embed them into the Prezi
• Log the questions you have asked and why you have asked them.
Discuss – What do you want to get from this interview
• The interview must be MEANINGFUL and one you can evaluate later.
• Evidence this on your Prezi which will then be put onto your BLOG
under this subtitle.