news values

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1) Come up with a news story from the last 12 months for each of the categories suggested by Harriss, Leiter and Johnson:

Conflict - Yemen: The doctor on the front line after years of war
Progress- Shares plunge as face worst day since financial crisis
Disaster- Coronavirus: Boris Johnson to hold emergency Cobra meeting
Consequence- Coronavirus information: How to stay safe
Prominence- Joana Vasconcelos: Will Gompertz reviews the artist's show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

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?

  • Asylum: You're right to worry

  • This headline suggests that asylum seekers pose a threat to the community and sets up ideas of conflict. It creates fear of the outsider and immigrants.
  • It talks about immigration which is  a relevant topic top the UK

    • 3) What is gatekeeping?

    • A process of filtering information of dissemination

    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?

    • They publishers arent actual journalists with expertise but they publish local news that is local to society.

    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?
    Its an immediate news source
    What does it say about how news is being produced?
    From the viewers, it suggests audience control
    What role does the audience have in this process?
    A powerful dominate role as they get to control what SKY puts out
    Why might this be a problem for journalistic standards?
    They can be out of a job if social media continues with the power it already has.

    7) In your opinion, how has the digital age changed Galtung and Ruge’s news values?

    • I think they have changed as they now it depends on the likes of sicial media as they can control what is contious and relevant.

    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.

    • socio-cultural: The gatekeepers are forever changing and are becoming everyday normal people who arent educated to experts in journalism.
    • continuity: The social media space is always changing due to the rapid pace of how news changing

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