News Values
One of the 8 news values. Discord between people or ideas
What is conflict?
One of the 8 news values. A term that means that an event occurred close to a journalist's geographic location.
What is proximity?
The time or date by which a story must be completed and submitted
What is deadline?
The period between editions, broadcasts or digital posting of stories.
What is news cycle?
The people who are likely to read or view your publication.
What is intended audience?
One of the 8 news values. The aspect of a news story that deals with a person's problems, concerns, interests, backgrounds, and achievements so that the reader's interest and perhaps emotion become involved. The subjects of these stories are "ordinary people" not prominent figures
What is human interest?
One of the 8 news values. It determines that the most recent, immediate, or "fresh" events are the most newsworthy. It answers "Why now?", prioritizing breaking news, developing stories, and upcoming events, as audience interest drops rapidly as a story ages. It keeps information relevant and urgent
What is timeliness?
The story that receives the most prominent treatment in a broadcast or on a web page or in a section of a paper; usually comes first in a broadcast or attracts the eye first through its placement, the size and style of font used in its headline and the graphic elements related to it.
What is dominant story?
Out of date
What is stale?
Potentially all people for all time, including our future employers, as-yet-unborn children, political opponents and the people who offer scholarships to high school seniors.
What is unintended audience?
One of the 8 news values. The extent to which a story will affect the audience's lives.
What is impact?
One of the 8 news values. Information that the public needs to navigate the world safely efficiently and economically.
Stories that a reporter finds or develops in addition to regular assignments from an editor.
What are enterprise stories?
Being sent to the printer
What is put to bed?
The unconscious attitudes, stereotypes, and involuntary associations people hold toward social groups, which influence behaviors and decisions without conscious awareness.
What is implicit bias?
One of the 8 news values. The quality of being unusual.
What is novelty/oddity?
Coming from a wire service such a Reuters, Associated Press (AP), or United Press International (UPI), that originally used the telegraph wires to transmit news.
What is across the wire?
The most prominent story on a news page or in a broadcast.
What is the lead story?
A connection to a timely event that justifies a feature or soft news story.
What is news peg?
Background and setting
What is context?
One of the 8 news values. The quality of being widely known. The significance, fame, or high public profile of people, organizations, or places involved in a story, which directly increases its newsworthiness.
What is prominence?
A topic or news area such as city politics or sports, covered regularly by a journalist
What is a beat?
The focus of a national or international story that features a story's impact on a journalist's community or connections a story has to journalist's community.
What is local angle?
A person, agency or website that collects news stories for wide distribution but does no reporting and does not create original content.
What is a news aggregator?
information and ideas
What is content?