News Values

 Read Media Factsheet 76: News Values and complete the following questions/tasks. 

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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?
An earthquake in San Fransisco kills two hundred people
It is a good example because it represents majority of the news values such as surprise and balance.
2) What is gatekeeping?
The process of filtering information prior to dissemination.

3) What are the six ways bias can be created in news?
  • Selection and omission
  • Placement
  • Headline
  • Photos, captions, camera angles
  • Names and Titles
  • Choice of words

4) How have online sources such as Twitter, bloggers or Wikileaks changed the way news is selected and published?
They offers a way for audiences to access news stories that may have been mediated or censored prior to being reported.

5) In your opinion, how has the digital age changed Galtung and Ruge’s news values? 
Because all news is easy accessible at all times. News reporters/ journalists etc have no need to narrow or filter out what they report and upload to get attention because now everything can be seen. Problems such as print finances are no longer an issue.

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.

E.g. Immediacy is more important than ever due to news breaking on social media or elsewhere online. However, this in turn changes the approach of other news sources such as newspapers as the news will probably already be broken so different angles might be required. Newspapers now contain more comment or opinion rather than the breaking story. 

  • Frequency: This is really important now, especially with events such as the Epstein files and ICE being, being aware of how often it is occurring is really important for the digital age and representation.
  • Unambiguity: There is so much fake news on digital technology so the news being unambiguous is important so that is is viewed as a trustworthy news site/ company.

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