This document discusses news values, which are guidelines used to determine what makes a news story worthy of being published or reported. It identifies nine main news values: timeliness, proximity, impact, controversy, magnitude, prominence, currency, oddity/novelty. Each value is then defined and an example is provided to illustrate how it determines the newsworthiness of a story. Timeliness refers to recency, proximity refers to local relevance, and impact, controversy, magnitude, and prominence refer to the number of people affected or interested in a story. Currency tracks issues that remain topics of public interest, while oddity/novelty means unusual or unique stories. These values help journalists decide what is essential, important information to report on

1. WHAT ARE NEWS VALUES?
NewsValues are guidelines which are used while preparing a news to
make it worthy.They are the pillars which use for make a worthy and
bigger news.

2. DIFFERENT TYPES OF NEWS VALUES
 Timeliness
 Proximity
 Impact
 Controversy
 Magnitude
 Prominence
 Currency
 Oddity/Novelty

3. TIMELINESS
 Timeliness means freshness in news.
 Recent events have higher news value than
earlier happenings.
 If you are providing breaking news instantly,
so it has worth.
 Example: If Pakistan won cricket match with
India and you are publishing that news after
two days, so there is no timeliness in that
news.

4. PROXIMITY
 Proximity means closeness to home.
 Stories about events and situations in one’s
home community are more worthy than
events that take place far away.
 EXAMPLE: If 100 people died in a bus crash in
your city, so obviously people concern with
that news, while the same kind of incident
happen in Iran.

5. IMPACT
 The number of people whose lives will be
influenced in some way by the subject of the
story.
 The impact of the story quickly establishes
the importance of the piece to the reader,
and the consequences for the reader
themselves.
 EXAMPLE:The AsianTsunami will create
more impact than local flood.

6. CONTROVERSY
 Arguments, debates and fights increase the
value of news.
 If there is conflict in the news it will be much
worthy, but it has to be relate with any
historical controversy.
 EXAMPLE: If US President discuss with Indian
Prime Minister on Kashmir Issue, so there is
controversy for Pakistani audience.

7. MAGNITUDE
 Quantity of news depends a lot in news.
 Events whose no. of people involved is of
paramount importance or whose impact
concerns a great number of people have
magnitude.
 EXAMPLE: If five students protest against the
framing of rods outside educational institute
so it means there is magnitude in that news.

8. PROMINENCE
 People are naturally curious about those
people who are famous or have power.
 For the same occurence, people in the public
eye have higher news value than obscure
people.
 EXAMPLE: If Mahira Khan has Cancer, so this
news gives value while an ordinary cancer
patient would not have commanded the
attention of worthy news.

9. CURRENCY
 Currency means frequency in news.
 More value is attributed to stories that are in
the spotlight of public concern rather than to
issues about which people care less.
 It can be follow-up of any raising issue.
 EXAPMLE: If murder and abduction of a
young boy is running for weeks and weeks, so
people will wait for further developments and
turning point of that issue.

10. NOVELTY
 Novelty means any interesting fact or
uniqueness in a story which you do not hear
ever before.
 It means now unusual is the subject of your
story.
 EXAMPLE:World’s tallest man Sultan Kosen
ofTurkey having height of 8 feet and 3 inches,
while world’s smallest women Jyoti Amage of
India got fame due to their unique heights, so
this news has novelty.