Newspapers: News Values

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 News Values: Blog task


Read Media Factsheet 76: News Values and complete the following questions/tasks. 
Our Media Factsheet archive is available here - you'll need your Greenford Google login to access.

1) What example news story does the Factsheet use to illustrate Galtung and Ruge's News Values? Why is it an appropriate example of a news story likely to gain prominent coverage?
Afghanistan, in terms of geographical proximity, is far away from theU.K. but when a young British soldier dies, the story gains cultural proximity as British audiences see the soldier as ‘one of their own’.

2) What is gatekeeping?
Gatekeeping is the process of filtering information prior to dissemination.

3) What are the six ways bias can be created in news?
Bias through selection and omission
Bias through placement
Bias by headline
Bias by photos, captions, and camera angles
Bias through use of names and titles
Bias by choice of words

4) How have online sources such as Twitter, bloggers or Wikileaks changed the way news is selected and published?
The fact that Wikileaks only publishes raw material bypasses news values, however, this information is passed on to news institutions who will use the information for their own news agenda. It is unlikely mass audiences or casual news consumers will look closely at the Wikileaks data as a source of everyday news, it will be journalists who decipher this information and decide what they consider to be relevant for mass publication.

5) In your opinion, how has the digital age changed Galtung and Ruge’s news values? 
As news can be seen anywhere at anytime, it may conflict with " immediacy"

6) How would you update these news values for the digital age? Choose TWO of Galtung and Ruge's news values and say how they have been affected by the growth of digital technology.
Negativity- a lot of news can be good as well
Unpredictability- lot of news is not shocking ie location based 

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