News Values
Read Media Factsheet 76: News Values and complete the following questions/tasks.
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?
'Its only agenda is to bring about ‘transparency’ and ‘freedom of speech’ and it 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?
Social media and the internet has allowed people to share their own point of view with their own evidence that can't be found in newspapers. The digital age also shows how there's no restriction on any of the content given out so anything can be shared and seen freely by the public.
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.
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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?
Time span- The event should best fit the time schedule of the news medium, for example a newspaper may be published daily so stories that are over quickly can still be published.
Intensity or threshold value- The story may have a greater magnitude than usual or there may be a sudden increase in the normal level of events.
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?
Time span- The event should best fit the time schedule of the news medium, for example a newspaper may be published daily so stories that are over quickly can still be published.
Intensity or threshold value- The story may have a greater magnitude than usual or there may be a sudden increase in the normal level of events.
etc.
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?
'Its only agenda is to bring about ‘transparency’ and ‘freedom of speech’ and it 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?
Social media and the internet has allowed people to share their own point of view with their own evidence that can't be found in newspapers. The digital age also shows how there's no restriction on any of the content given out so anything can be shared and seen freely by the public.
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.
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