1 / 27

What is news?

What is news?. Part 2. How does news get to be news?. Who decides?. “Gatekeepers”. Too much information out there; can’t possibly put it all in newspaper or broadcast. Each news outlet has a person or people who select what will be the news for that “edition.”

hubert
Download Presentation

What is news?

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. What is news? Part 2

  2. How does news get to be news? Who decides?

  3. “Gatekeepers” • Too much information out there; can’t possibly put it all in newspaper or broadcast. • Each news outlet has a person or people who select what will be the news for that “edition.” • Those people are gatekeepers. Also known as … • Editors • Producers • Directors

  4. Making Decisions What criteria do you think gatekeepers use in making their decisions?

  5. You = personal gatekeeper How are you a gatekeeper?

  6. Playing Gatekeeper • Pretend you’re the editor of a Scott High School newspaper or podcast. • On a sheet of paper, make 3 columns • Label them: “News,” “Sports, “Student Life” • List 3 ideas for stories in each category

  7. Playing Gatekeeper - 2 • Trade papers • “Grade” each idea: • X = doesn’t interest you • √ = interests you •  = interests you a lot • Trade papers again

  8. Top Stories? What criteria did you useto make your decisions?

  9. 3 Criteria • Facts • Adequate • Accurate • Timely • Audience • Who will be reading? • What are their values? Interests? • Interest • Have meaning to the audience

  10. 6 Factors These factors influence the news that gets to public (different from newsworthiness)

  11. Factor 1: News hole • the amount of space in the newspaper or time in a newscast available for news • what determines news hole? business factors • Web: not too much of a factor

  12. Factor 2: News flow • the number of news stories available to run at any one time • Example: Sports Illustrated

  13. Factor 3: Medium • some stories play better on TV than in newspaper & vice versa • newspapers – many stories, some depth • magazines – depth, some perspective • radio – fastest & sound • TV – fast & pictures • Internet -- hybrid

  14. Factor 4: Deadlines • the latest time a story can be finished in order to be printed in that paper or shown on that newscast • Game-changers: • 24-hour cable • Internet

  15. Factor 5: Editorial Philosophy • what a media outlet chooses to cover

  16. Factor 6: Business • What sells!

  17. Finding News Where does news come from?

  18. Beats • Beat • A regular assignment give to reporters • A place reporters go to regularly to get info • Reporters work a beat to find stories • Gain expertise & contacts—which lead to stories

  19. Sources • Source • Someone who provides information to a journalist • Journalists develop regular sources through their beat assignments • People contact reporters with stories

  20. “Local Angle” • Local Connection – a fact or person that connects a story originating elsewhere to the local audience • George Clooney – “Maysville native” • War in Afghanistan – local soldiers involvement (killed or wounded) • Local groups raising money or collecting supplies for Haitian earthquake victims

  21. Chad Ochocinco: 'Dancing with the Stars' will help in off-seasonBengals wide receiver practices four hours daily with partner Cheryl BurkeBy John Kiesewetter • jkiesewetter@enquirer.com • March 9, 2010 Chad Ochocinco took a few minutes away from “Dancing with the Stars” practice to provide a scouting report on his attempt to master the cha-cha in three weeks.“It’s extremely, extremely hard,” says Ochocinco, 32, one of 11 celebrities who will compete on the hit ABC show that starts March 22.

  22. “Local Angle” – 2 • Local Focus – bringing a larger national or international story into the local community • Swine flue – local update • Local impact of national controversies

  23. Follow Up • “Next day” • Reporting that follows up on a story from the previous day • Futures file • Coming back to a story for a planned update

More Related