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What Is News?

What Is News?. Let’s Keep It Simple. New s = What’s New. News value the criteria editors and reporters use to decide what news is fit to print or broadcast. Professor Villarosa’s son catches huge fish on Labor Day 2014!. How to Judge News Value. Relevance (Does it matter?)

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What Is News?

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  1. What Is News?

  2. Let’s Keep It Simple... News = What’s New

  3. News valuethe criteria editors and reporters use to decide what news is fit to print or broadcast

  4. Professor Villarosa’s son catches huge fish on Labor Day 2014!

  5. How to Judge News Value • Relevance (Does it matter?) • Usefulness (Is it important that people know this?) • Interest (Who cares?)

  6. Journalists look for these elements, when selecting news stories: • Timeliness • Impact • Conflict • Novelty • Prominence • Proximity • Engagement • Solutions

  7. Timeliness News is supposed to be new. These days that means instantaneous.

  8. Another journalist beheaded on video posted Tuesday

  9. Weather Channel Boasts Record Ratings, Thanks to Hurricane Sandy; 300 million page views!

  10. Impact How many people are affected? The greater the impact, the better the story.

  11. Hurricane Sandy Pummels East Coast

  12. Another journalist beheaded on video posted Tuesday

  13. Conflict

  14. U.S. Military Strikes Iraq

  15. NYC Mayoral Candidates Spar in Final Debate

  16. Novak Djokovic Defeats Andy Murray to Reach U.S. Open Semifinals

  17. What’s the conflict?

  18. Novelty Some events are newsworthy just because they are unusual.

  19. Cat Survives 26 Story Fall

  20. Prominence The bigger the name, the bigger the news

  21. Royal Baby!

  22. Proximity People care about what happens close to home.

  23. Laundry Lounge Opens in Harlem!

  24. West Indian Day Parade

  25. Engagement Sometimes a news report marks the beginning of a conversation—that keeps going.

  26. Police shoot unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Missouri

  27. Strikes a chord, sparks national conversation

  28. Solutions Many news stories discuss problems; the best ones also offer solutions.

  29. College Debt Reaches All-Time High • 7 Ways to Reduce College Debt • Experts discuss solutions for the College Debt Crisis • How to save money on college expenses

  30. To recap…Journalists look for these elements, when selecting news stories: • Timeliness • Impact • Conflict • Novelty • Prominence • Proximity • Engagement • Solutions

  31. Assignment due next Tuesday • Write 300 words about a news event that affected your life. What was it? When was it? Why was it important to you? How did you first find out—TV, social media, word of mouth? • Print it out, double space, pay attention to grammar.

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