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Understanding News Value: Key Criteria for Journalists

News is not just about what's happening; it’s about the value and impact of the stories we share. Journalists evaluate potential news stories based on several crucial criteria, including relevance, usefulness, interest, impact, conflict, novelty, prominence, timeliness, engagement, and solutions. This guide discusses how these elements influence what makes a story worthy of coverage, helping readers understand the news landscape better. Exploring examples like Hurricane Sandy and significant political events, we examine how journalists prioritize stories that resonate with the audience.

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Understanding News Value: Key Criteria for Journalists

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  1. What Is News?

  2. Let’s Keep It Simple... News = What’s New

  3. News valuethe criteria editors and reporters use to decide what news is fit to print or broadcast

  4. Professor Villarosa’s son catches huge fish on his birthday August 10, 2013!

  5. How to Judge News Value • Relevance (Does it matter?) • Usefulness (Is it important that people know this?) • Interest (Who cares?)

  6. Journalists look for these elements, when selecting news stories: • Impact • Conflict • Novelty • Prominence • Timeliness • Engagement • Solutions

  7. Impact How many people are affected? The greater the impact, the better the story.

  8. Hurricane Sandy Pummels East Coast

  9. Conflict

  10. Protestors and Police Clash in Egypt

  11. Obama vs Romney in Presidential Debate

  12. Serena Williams beats Sloane Stephens at U.S. Open

  13. Novelty Some events are newsworthy just because they are unusual.

  14. Cat Survives 26 Story Fall

  15. Diana Nyad

  16. Prominence The bigger the name, the bigger the news

  17. Royal Baby!

  18. Proximity People care about what happens close to home.

  19. Laundry Lounge Opens in Harlem!

  20. Timeliness News is supposed to be new. These days that means instantaneous.

  21. Weather Channel Boasts Record Ratings, Thanks to Hurricane Sandy; 300 million page views!

  22. Engagement Sometimes a news report marks the beginning of a conversation—that keeps going.

  23. Shooter Kills Children and Staff at Connecticut Elementary School

  24. Solutions Many news stories discuss problems; the best ones also offer solutions.

  25. College Debt Reaches All-Time High • 7 Ways to Reduce College Debt • MTV Helps Battle College Debt with New Facebook App • Experts discuss solutions for the College Debt Crisis

  26. To recap…Journalists look for these elements, when selecting news stories: • Impact • Conflict • Novelty • Prominence • Timeliness • Engagement • Solutions

  27. No Class Thursday 9/5Due Tuesday 9/10 • Write 300 words about a news event that affected your life. What was it? When was it? Why was it important to you? How did you first find out—TV, social media, word of mouth? • Print it out, double space, pay attention to grammar. • Come prepared for news quiz on the NYC primary election. It will cover these races: mayor, comptroller, Manhattan and Brooklyn borough presidents

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