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News Selection Criteria

News Selection Criteria. Impact. Information has impact if it affects a lot of people. How does the event impact the audience? Example: A bomb explosion that killed three people in Gaza City. Example: Proposed tax income increase. Election campaign in South Africa. Proximity.

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News Selection Criteria

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  1. News Selection Criteria

  2. Impact • Information has impact if it affects a lot of people. • How does the event impact the audience? • Example: A bomb explosion that killed three people in Gaza City. • Example: Proposed tax income increase. • Election campaign in South Africa.

  3. Proximity • information has proximity if it involves something happened somewhere nearby • How close is the event to you? • Example: A bus crash in Khan Younis that killed 5 people. • Example: • Car accident in India that killed 25 people.

  4. Timeliness • Information has timeliness if it happened recently, as defined by the publication cycle • How recently did (or will) the event happen? • Live event? • The more time that passes, the less newsworthy a story is. • For "Newsweek," events that happened during the previous week • For a daily newspaper, however, events that happened during the 24 hours since the last edition of the paper • For CNN Headline News, events that happened during the past half hour

  5. Unusualness • Information has unusualness if it involves something unusual or strange. • Charles A. Dana, a famous editor, once said, “If a dog bites a man, that's not news. But if a man bites a dog, that's news!”

  6. Prominence • Information has prominence if it involves a well-known person or organization • Example: If the Prime Minister travels to Iran. • Example: Actor Adel Imam meets with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsy.

  7. Relevance • Audiences with different socio-cultural, political and ethnic backgrounds relate to the outside world in different ways. • Example: The Muslim Brotherhood wins a big majority in Egyptian elections. • Example: Afghan’s Taliban seizes major city in fight with US forces. • Sri Lankan Government imposes new taxes.

  8. Conflict • Information has conflict if it involves some kind of disagreement between two or more people or parties. • Conflict and tension is more interesting than peace. • Example: Conflict between Free Syrian Army and Syrian regime forces. • Fateh and Hamas disagree on responsibility for current situation.

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