Newspapers: News Values

 Read Media Factsheet 76: News Values and complete the following questions/tasks. 

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1) What example news story does the Factsheet use to illustrate Galtung and Ruge's News Values? Why is it an appropriate example of a news story likely to gain prominent coverage?
They use a guardian story about an English woman who was a victim of a bombing. They list all of the values which can affect and audience, they talk about how the different outcomes and how due to its shock value it stays to be prominent story as this is something that they could not have expected despite it happening.


2) What is gatekeeping?

It is filtering information prior to publishing, in other word it is controlling what comes out from the news and the flow of how it comes out to the public.

3) 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 the use of names and titles
-Bias by choice of words

4) How have online sources such as Twitter, bloggers or Wikileaks changed the way news is selected and published?

Wikileaks has been known as the whistle-blower site, this shows how the content on their is seen as the "raw" source and presents the transparency and "the freedom of speech" It shows them in their true nature.

5) In your opinion, how has the digital age changed Galtung and Ruge’s news values? 
Galtung and Ruge's news values have not changed in the digital age as they still have impacts of all of the values, these are the basic kind of values are normally seen in news.


6) How would you update these news values for the digital age? Choose TWO of Galtung and Ruge's news values and say how they have been affected by the growth of digital technology.
I do not think we can change these values as they are all the baseline for news stories as they determine how they are viewed by the audience.


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