Newspapers: News Values
Read Media Factsheet 76: News Values and complete the following questions/tasks. Our Media Factsheet archive is on the Media Shared drive: M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets 1) Come up with a news story from the last 12 months for each of the categories suggested by Harriss, Leiter and Johnson: Conflict- MI5 believed black people posed security risk, papers reveal Full story here Progress- Disaster- Consequence- Saudi Arabia to hit back in case of sanctions over Jamal Khashoggi Full story Prominence Novelty 2) 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? Britsh woman dies after Afghan bomb blast. As a young British soldier has died elsewhere, because they are British it gains cultural proximity as a British audience would view them as 'one of their own'. Especially as she is a woman...