03 October - Lecture Week 10

It seemed that I took a long break yesterday, sorry I was caught up in a new Sims 3 Pets Limited Edition :) So now I have, once again, braced myself not to be distracted and focus on my assignments. Hix ToT I still have 3 lectures to go after this one...

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On week 10, I learned about news value. News value is the degree of prominence a media outlet gives to a
story, and the attention that is paid by an audience (i.e. how important is this news, what effects will it gives and why should the reader know about the issue). News values and newsworthiness have many factors:

1) Negativity = bad news/tragedy
2) Closeness to home = how relatable the audience is geographically
3) Recency = freshness
4) Currency = money value of a news (i.e. can it be a long shot series?)
5) Continuity = events that continue for a long period (i.e. war)
6) Uniqueness = how different/unique a story is
7) Simplicity = a simple true story that is more preferable than a confusing one
8) Personality = stories that centre around a particular person (i.e. celebrity stories)
9) Expectedness/predictability = does the event match public predictions?
10) Elite nations or people = news involving powerful nations/people, for example, politicians
11) Exclusivity = if a news person or media is the first or the only media that cover the story
12) Size = the bigger the impact, the better