Ahead of writing the news stories for my radio news bulletin I am going to look at news stories online and listen to radio news bulletins to see how certain news values affect the position and prominence of certain stories.
News values include :
Immediacy: Has it happened recently? Is the story "breaking"?
Familiarity: Is it culturally or geographically close to us in London/Britain/Europe/the USA?
Amplitude: Is it a big event or one which involves large numbers of people?
Frequency: Does the event happen a lot?
Impact: Can we identify with the story as having a profound effect on our own lives?
Predictability: Did we expect it to happen?
Surprise: Is it an unusual or unexpected event?
Continuity: Has this story already been defined as news? Is it part of an ongoing or long running story?
Conflict: Does the story contain drama in describing disagreements, arguments, fights or battles between two or more people/organisations?
lite People: DEoes the story concern well-known people, such as celebrities?
Personalisation: Is it a human interest story?
Negativity: Is it bad news?
Scandal: Is the story likely to provoke moral outrage from parts of the audience?
Balance: Is the story selected to balance other news, such as a human survival story to balance a number of stories concerning death?
When analysing the news stories I look at and listen to, I will make a note of the news values the stories contain, as I think this will help me when choosing my own stories when i'm scripting my radio.
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