On your computer in NotePad, write the following - FIRST SAVE INTO YOUR (H:) Drive!
- Write a few sentences about what makes something interesting.
- As a class, watch one report from a local TV news channel.
- What is not news?
- What are eight (8) news values?
- After each news value, write a recent segment from our newscast that has that value.
- Watch a second report from a local TV news channel.
- Paste the link to the story.
- Write a summary of that report.
- Make a list of the news values from that report.
- Copy and paste into the "Project - News Values" assignment in Campus Portal.
Quick List and Quick Points
News is information that is new to a person.
The "news values" are what makes that information interesting or useful.
Here are eight news values: - Impact - affects a large group of people, a.k.a. consequence
- Timeliness - is it happening today or nine years from now. The closer to now, the more interesting it is. a.k.a. immediacy; related to suspense
- Proximity - is it happening where the viewer is right now, or far, far, far away?
- Oddity - is it something out of the ordinary, that does not happen all the time, that has never happened before; a.k.a. bizzarreness, related to progress
- Conflict - is there complete agreement, or disagreement
- Prominence - if the people / place / thing / idea is very well known or familiar
- Currency - related to recent or current stories
- Human Interest - about someone who has achieved something rare or unexpected; related to emotion
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