Newspapers: News Values

 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
American Election 
  • Progress
Triumph or achievement
Vaccine rollout
  • Disaster
Defeat or destruction
3rd lockdown
  • Consequence
Effects on individuals or community
Covid: Surge testing in Ealing and Redbridge after South African coronavirus variant identified
  • Prominence 
The well-known or famous
Prince Philip transferred to second hospital for heart condition tests
  • Novelty
The unusual or emotional

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?

3) What is gatekeeping?
Gatekeeping is the process of filtering information prior to dissemination. This process is usually done via the editor, but the gatekeeping
the process could be seen to be more than simply an editor choosing one story over another,

4) 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

5) How have online sources such as Twitter, bloggers or Wikileaks changed the way news is selected and published?
some bloggers have high-profiles on the internet, many are regarded as unreliable sources of news.
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.

6) Complete the task on the last page of the Factsheet regarding Sky News and Twitter:
  • What does this reveal about how Sky views Twitter as a news source?
  • What does it say about how news is being produced?
  • What role does the audience have in this process?
  • Why might this be a problem for journalistic standards?
7) In your opinion, how has the digital age changed Galtung and Ruge’s news values? 

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.

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