News Values
September 26, 2018
Read Media Factsheet 76: News Values and complete the following questions/tasks.
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The death of Osama bin Laden is the example given and, for its time, is the main story that would receive airtime due to the fact that it is a story that bears multiple of the news values Gatlung and Ruge mention.
3) What is gatekeeping?
This is when the editors of a newspaper will filter/chose a specific story over another, perhaps to maintain values of the newspaper etc.
4) What are the six ways bias can be created in news?
5) How have online sources such as Twitter, bloggers or Wikileaks changed the way news is selected and published?
This removes some of the gate keeping seen in traditional media as anyone can upload, with minimal regulation, because the internet is so difficult to regulate.
6) Complete the task on the last page of the Factsheet regarding Sky News and Twitter:
7) In your opinion, how has the digital age changed Galtung and Ruge’s news values?
The digital age has altered how we see some of these values as well as how important they are, for example, immediacy has become more relevant than ever, in my opinion, thanks to the digital age, mainly due to how things can become irrelevant in a short space of time.
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.
This means that immediacy in increased as people can live stream, and provide live updates when in certain situations, therefore making us want even newer stories, purely because we have the capabilities to do so now, thanks to social media and our smartphones.
Unambiguity is another news value that has been changed by digital media, due to the fact that if one news station runs a story, out of 6 stations for example, it is seen as good quality journalism, but if one person out of millions of people posts something news worthy, it can be seen as unreliable because of a lack of support/re posts.
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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: Africa Being Compared To Warzone
- Progress: Trump and Kim Jong Un Come to Agreement
- Disaster: Hurricane Harvey Causes Disaster in Texas
- Consequence:
- Prominence: Ronaldo vents about European Football Referees
- Novelty:
The death of Osama bin Laden is the example given and, for its time, is the main story that would receive airtime due to the fact that it is a story that bears multiple of the news values Gatlung and Ruge mention.
3) What is gatekeeping?
This is when the editors of a newspaper will filter/chose a specific story over another, perhaps to maintain values of the newspaper etc.
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?
This removes some of the gate keeping seen in traditional media as anyone can upload, with minimal regulation, because the internet is so difficult to regulate.
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?
This reveals that Sky News sees twitter as a valuable news source, made clear through how they had highlighted the immediacy provided through twitter.
- What does it say about how news is being produced?
This tells us that news can be produced and added to by anyone, thanks to their phone, and just being in the right place at the right time.
- What role does the audience have in this process?
The audience plays a huge role in all of this as it is suggested that an audience member is the person who had provided Sky News with the pictures, which therefore eliminates the need for journalists as the audience is doing their jobs.
- Why might this be a problem for journalistic standards?
This arguably lowers the standard of standards for journalists as all an audience member needed to do was provide a picture, whereas a journalist would have had to investigate more, build a story and pitch it to the higher editorials to run the story, meaning that people are increasingly needing to do less to be recognised.
The digital age has altered how we see some of these values as well as how important they are, for example, immediacy has become more relevant than ever, in my opinion, thanks to the digital age, mainly due to how things can become irrelevant in a short space of time.
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.
This means that immediacy in increased as people can live stream, and provide live updates when in certain situations, therefore making us want even newer stories, purely because we have the capabilities to do so now, thanks to social media and our smartphones.
Unambiguity is another news value that has been changed by digital media, due to the fact that if one news station runs a story, out of 6 stations for example, it is seen as good quality journalism, but if one person out of millions of people posts something news worthy, it can be seen as unreliable because of a lack of support/re posts.
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