News Values

• Impact: story has significance to a community and can affect them in a bad way. E.g. Earthquake.
• Negativity: bad news always makes the headlines. Bad news is Good news for editor.
• Timelessness: events that happened recently or people who are current generally are more newsworthy. News that is trending. Everyone is talking about it
• Proximity/familiarity: ‘closeness’. News that is close to you. Something that you may relate to.
• Prominence: people in the limelight always make the news. Public eye tends to be more newsworthy.
• Conflict: major conflicts make the news.
• Currency: about an issue in the public because it is consciousness at the particular time.
• Oddity: news about weird or unusual people, places, things or events.
• Human interest: stories that play to human emotions can be very newsworthy. They are usually about ordinary people.