News Values

There are millions of storys everyday which sould make the enws, however journalists need to find a method to help them decide which stories they should choose to use. They use a set of criteria called news values to help them select the news.

Frequency - The story needs to be reported quickly, a murder would need to be established quickly.
Threshold - Larger event that effects more people is more likely to be taken interest in by large group.
Unambiguity - simple story that does not challenge stereotypes
Meaningfulness - If it effects local people it will have a place in local newspapers, person is murdered near their house, more important.
Consonance - events that meet our expectations become news easily
Unexpectedness/suprise - Something ouit of the ordinary (man bites dog > dog bites man)
Continuity - More informatiopn on something large established as good news already like a war.
Composition - Balance news, but also it is shown that western news is more important to people as is reference to elite people
Personalisation - Facts that effect people, like interviewing people to give insight into the event
Negativity - Bad news is better spread than good news.  
Actuality - if there is genuine evidence it is reported more
Elite nations - Western and rich large countries are more important than poor countries, unless something extremely drastic happens
Elite persons - Celebrity stories are seen as more important


News agenda

is to do with which stories you select for your newspaper and the priority that you give to those stories, more important stories will have more text and more images to go with them. News values are the same for all news organizations and what ever target audience you have but different news papers give priority to different news values. A broad sheet news paper would give priority to elite nations but a tabloid would give priority to personalization. A local newspaper gives priority to meaningfull ness (close to home/local)

News Selection

all news involves the selection of informatyion by journalists because it would be impossible to include every single detail. When photographs are taken choices by the photographer must be taken on how they wish to represent the event. Captions underneath pictures help to lead readers towards a preffered reading of the image

Ideology 

Ideology is a set of beleifs and ideas which are heald by a society or groups of people or individuals. In our country the dominant ideology is probably white, male, middle class, middle aged and conservative. a local newspaper will try to keep a neutral perspective as to not upset an audience. The layout of the paper is very formal to give a sense that the paper is trustworthy and reliable. Going to be targetting a local but very broad audience. Broad means that the age range can go from both extremes and all socio economic groups will be reading it and all religious beleifs and interests, different political beliefs and different family positions.

Primary media - when we pay clsoe attention to the text
secondary media - is where we pay little attention to the text
tertiary - we are not concious of the media

Circulation
if one person buys the news paper it could be read by 30 or 40 more people in the day