Newspapers: News Values

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1) Come up with a news story from the last 12 months for each of the categories suggested by Harriss, Leiter and Johnson:
  • Conflict--> Tension or surprise--> Gaza ceasefire: 'It feels like normal life'
  • Progress--> Triumph or achievement --> Brexit: Theresa May says 'important progress' made at EU summit
  • Disaster--> Defeat or destruction--> Storm Florence: Disaster declared in North Carolina
  • Consequence--> Effects on an individual -->Brain injury: Stories of changed lives
  • Prominence --> The well-known --> Cliff Richard paedophile claims
  • Novelty--> The unusual or emotional-->Death of Micheal Jackson
2) 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?
--> The example given by Gultang and Ruge is 'British servicewomen dies after Afgan bomb blast'. This is mostly to be covered in mainstream media and new because it is it is unexpected event it happen ed by surprise. Furthermore, it quite negative because the news is bad and gives the view that Afghans are out to get European and other people. This is also likely to gain prominent coverage because this story is also unpredictable and the audience are more likely to view it since happens rarely.

3) What is gate keeping?
--> Gate keeping is the process of filtering information prior to dissemination. This process is usually done via the editor but the gate keeping process could be seen to be more than a simply an editor choosing one story over another, it could also refer to how journalist select certain lines of questioning, or use some words over other to describe people and events.

 4) What are the six ways bias can be created in news?

  1. Bias through selection and omission
  2. Bias through placement
  3. Bias by headline
  4. Bias by photos, captions, and camera angles
  5. Bias through use of names and titles
  6. Bias by choice of words


5) How have online sources such as Twitter, bloggers or Wikileaks changed the way news is selected and published?
--> Online sources have changes the way news is selected and published because it is more regulated. This means that news stories and journalist have no freedom to publish what they believe or what they think. This allows ordinary citizens to gate keep what other people have written and published and can openly ask for apologises if anything is done wrong. 

6) Complete the task on the last page of the Fact sheet regarding Sky News and Twitter:
  • What does this reveal about how Sky views Twitter as a news source?
This reveals that twitter is very fast at updating and provides with
  • What does it say about how news is being produced?
The audience is made to read this and take in the information and actually get back at this news story and tweet about it. This will spread it and actually cause people to read it more.
  • What role does the audience have in this process?
This is because the news not have enough evidence or actual substance for it to be backed up which makes it a problem as journalists will just be posting to look for attention.
  • Why might this be a problem for journalistic standards?

The audience is made to read this and take in the information and actually get back at this news story and tweet about it. This will spread it and actually cause people to read it more.

7) In your opinion, how has the digital age changed Galtung and Ruge’s news values? 

 --> In my opinion digital age changed Gultang and Ruge's news values because everything is evolving so it is hard for them to keep up with modern society. Nowadays everyone is being told to watch the news and there always has to be a reason behind it for the younger generation to actually watch it.

8) How would you update them for 2018? Choose TWO of Galtung and Ruge's news values and say how they have been affected by the growth of digital technology

 --> One news value thats has been affected by the growth of digital technology is the surprise. This is because its rare nowadays that something on the news surprises the audience. The growth of social media allows audiences to predict what is going to happen and when it does there is no element of shock in it. Another news value that has been affected by the growth of digital technology is Frequency because the audience get regular events through social media hence the unnecessary coverage from the news is not needed.

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