JTC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: News Values
12 Sep 2016
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Journalism part 1, the mental models of news workers. Impact/consequence: physical proximity, psychological proximity, human interest, unusual, novelty, deviance, prominence, timeliness. Exam question: which one is not on the list of 8 news values: controversy/conflict, familiarity, unusual/ novelty/ deviance, prominence. Disputes over differences in politics, religion, culture, ideologies. Allegations of abuse of power, institutional failure, fraud or deception, bias, injustice, ineptness, negligence or reckless. Potential to affect a large number of people. This can be stock changes or forest fires. Occurs in news organization"s backyard could affect the audience. Cover stories that happen in the area, so the stories only affect the local people that read this particular paper. Occurs outside our backyard but makes us concerned for our own safety. Telling a story through the eyes of someone else, who might have been there. It humanizes the story, and makes it easier for us to connect with the story. Well-known person whose actions considered newsworthy due to prominence.
