NEWS VALUES

 AS MEDIA NEWS VALUES

News Agenda

Agenda setting - what is chosen to see / news shown chosen by the media

Media gatekeepers - who chooses them to show / those who choose (e.g. editors, the government, news companies)

News stories are selected based on:

1. Negativity	‘Hard’ News - bad news will almost always be prioritised.
2. Proximity	Things that happen close to home (domestic news) or that involve people from a local area.
3. Recency	“Breaking News’
4. Currency	The ‘value’ of a story. If it is useful for people.
5. Continuity	Stories that are likely to continue for a long time.
6. Simplicity	The easier the story is to understand, the better.
7. Personality	Often ‘soft’ news surrounds personalities in whom the public has an interest eg. Royal family, celebrities, athletes
8. Uniqueness	If a story is unusual or surprising
9. Expectedness	Includes diary events - things that happen at a particular time of the year.
10. Elite nations/people	Western societies such as European countries and the USA will tend to dominate the news.
11. Exclusivity	When a news channel has footage or information that is not yet in possession of others.
12. Threshold	How many people are impacted on by an event.

CNN, Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld

"'Paris is booming': New art fair attracts multi-million-dollar sales"

• Proximity - As the news specified on the location of the "art fair" - Paris
• Recency - The "art fair" has just been introduced
• Currency - It could be useful to those who enjoy going to art fairs
• Uniqueness - The story may seem surprising to some due to the choice of words of "attracts multi-million-dollar sales"
• Elite nations/people - European countries will dominate the news, specifically France
• Exclusivity - CNN could be one of the publishers of this news as they have access to capture images in the art fair - seen on the cover
• Threshold - People will be impacted by this new art fair event - "attracting" the population