News Values
Read Media Factsheet 76: News Values and complete the following questions/tasks. Immediacy: has it happened recently? Familiarity: is it culturally close to us in Britain? Amplitude: is it a big event or one which involves large numbers of people? Frequency: does the event happen fairly regularly? Unambiguity: is it clear and definite? Predictability: did we expect it to happen? Surprise: is it a rare or unexpected event? Continuity: has this story already been defined as news? Elite nations and people: which country has the event happened in? Does the story concern well-known people? Personalisation: Is it a personal or human interest story? Negativity: is it bad news? Exclusivity: do any other newspapers have this story? Visual impact: are there amazing pictures accompanying the story? Balance: the story may be selected to balance other news, such as a human survival story to balanc...
