News values and content analysis newsworthiness Not all information counts as news Not all events are considered newsworthy News has to be selected and thus becomes notable according to selection criteria paradigms of relevance and frames for including and excluding material ID: 295026
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What gets in the news?
News values and content analysisSlide2
newsworthiness
Not all information counts as news
Not all events are considered newsworthy
News has to be selected and thus becomes notable according to selection criteria, paradigms of relevance and frames for including and excluding material
Principles of inclusion and exclusion may be summed up under the heading of
news values
Events become news to the extent that they satisfy the following criteria:Slide3
A set of thresholds
1.
Recency
or
timeliness
News has to be made fresh daily
A limited life cycle
The scoop
The exclusive
Breaking newsSlide4
News values - inclusion factors
Threshold 2
Intensity
or discontinuity
Sharply and temporally bounded
Acute not
chronic
Threshold 3
Scale/scope
BIG is more newsworthy
Tsunami 9/11Slide5
does the item have…..
Threshold 4 Conflict
Strikes, divorce, war, elections,
polarisations
Threshold 5
Personalisation
Drama, identification, Slide6
Reasons for choosing
Threshold 6
Power
Presidents, prime ministers, princesses, popes
Habermas
‘ the
refeudalisation
of the public sphere’
1989
Powerful nations, organisations, power blocs
US rather than UzbekistanSlide7
What people like…..
Threshold 7 Negativity
Bad news makes good news
War, crime, fatal accidents, famine, earthquake, disasterSlide8
Inclusion factors
Threshold 8 Unexpectedness
Routine events do not make news
Threshold
9 Consonance
Fitting in with a script
Schemata and scriptsSlide9
Threshold
10 Proximity
/cultural relevance
Threshold
11 Meaningfulness
/ unambiguity
Threshold
12
Composistion
/fit
The different slots in the bulletin
Balance between domestic and international
Items with footageSlide10
An obvious question
Who gets to make the decisions?
Do they have any other criteria?
Is there another agenda?
And what do we miss?Slide11
Some other questions
Who gets to make the decision?
Do my media operate in the same way?
Do they operate with other criteria?
What do we miss?Slide12Slide13Slide14