Saturday, 30 October 2010

Types of News Stories

petuniaThreshold/Impact/Amplitude:
Have the greatest impact on the audience

Negative:
Conmstructive event are less likely to feature than cotrastrophe/violence

Timelessness: Events that have happened recently

Familiarity/Proximity: News related to the audience/region

Prominence:  People who are in the public eye are more newsworthy

Conflict: Events/People that feature conflict tend to be more newsworthy

Currency: Sometimes a story is more newsworthy because it's about an issue in the public consciousness at that particular time

Oddity:  Weird/Unusual people, place or event

Human Interest: Stories that play with human emotions can be very newsworthy - it's about ordinary people

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