News Values

News Values

Immediacy - has it happened recently ? Is it new? News broadcasts the events through radio , Internet etc. This is because new and digital media allows you to publicise the events making it more efficient for the public to be aware of what is going on. Twitter and other social networking sites have allowed users to get news faster


Familiarity - does it mean something to us ?
World news on news apps allow us to see news better, even on social networking websites we are able to see news that regards anything worldwide.


Frequency - is it something that happened fairly quick ? Citizen journalism has helped improve the speed of news, with citizens sending in pictures, news corporations and papers are able to view pictures sent in and post them in there papers


Ambiguity- is it clear and are the results/clash obvious ? Digital media has shown that even boring news has a place in the media, we are able to see categories of news that may not interest is but may others.


Predictability - is it predictable ? Some news is predictable, so a lot of people do not read it but with the upcoming World Cup we will see an increase in betting apps and sport apps


Surprise - is it rare or unexpected ? Rare news usually surprises the audience and news such as Lee Rigbys murder was a case that interested the audience vastly the growth of new and digital media has affected surprise as we see current events rather than aftermath.


Continuity - is a running story ? Current running news stories usually do not interest audiences but war stories do so citizen journalism is used and affected by the growth of new and digital media. Ukraine being an example.


Elite nations or people - has the event happened in a country ? Events such as the Ukraine riots and the interference of Russia and USA, was seen as elite news and with news conferences being streamed on apps we see the difference new and digital media has made.


Personalisation - is it a personal or human story ?
Inspirational stories have been given limelight by new and digital media and with the video website YouTube we see how new and digital media has affected audiences and stories.


Negativity - is it bad news? Audiences usually prefer bad news, it creates moral panic throughout the audience and new and digital media also allows us to see the current events rather than the aftermath this is helped with citizen journalism.


Exclusivity - are we the only news paper that has this story? The rise of new and digital media has gotten rid of the exclusivity factor for newspapers and much news is now broken via social networking sites for example Tom Daleys confession.


Visual impact - is this a strong image ? Citizen journalism has affected how strong images are, again with the lee rigby murder we saw explicit images of the actual murder which was sent into ITV



Balance - is it being used to counterbalance bad news ? Bad news is one that is seen as a good thing for news corporations but social networking sites are not able to do the same thing breaking news is broken on social networking sites but we see no counterbalance.