Week 9, saw us tackling the issue of News values. While I initially thought that News values concerned the issue of journalist values, similar to journalist ethics, I was pleasantly surprised to uncover that the actual topic of discussion involved what makes a good news story and what we as Journalists should be following, within certain parameters of course. While I can’t say that I laughed the whole way, I’ll admit that it was a fairly interesting lecture and has provided some useful future information.
The lecture dealt mainly with the four major aspects of News Values, along with Newsworthiness. The four major aspects of News Values are as follows:
- Impact
- Audience Identification
- Pragmatics
- Source Influence
Newsworthiness is the confluence of all 4 of the major aspects, which is then split into multiple little fields within it. Now that may sound confusing, but in reality, it is simply just what happens as there is not one single given set of values for newsworthiness, rather each country, station or newspaper have there own set which they stick to like the 10 commandments. Below, is a list of multiple news values pertaining to newsworthiness, culminated in one big list (Note that this is only some of the news values around the world, there are many, many more out there, some longer than my combined list):
- Negativity
- Closeness to Home
- Recency
- Currency
- Continuity
- Uniqueness
- Simplicity
- Personality
- Expectedness
- Elite Nations or People
- Exclusivity
- Size
- Drama
- Visual Attractiveness
- Entertainment
- Brevity
- Personalities
And the Big 6:
- Significance: Impact on the public
- Proximity: Location, emotional, historical etc
- Conflict: War, govt, celebrities and sport
- Human Interest: Peoples lives and struggles
- Novelty: Uniqueness of the story, That doesn’t happen very often
- Prominence: Place in the public mind
This was the bulk of the lecture, as in my opinion is was really a light on content, high on knowledge kind of lecture. Don’t mistake this for apathy, I genuinely enjoyed the lecture for the wealth of new information I was provided and I consider it a valued piece for my future study.
No comments:
Post a Comment