1) Come up with a news story from the last 12 months for each of the categories suggested by Harriss, Leiter and Johnson:
Conflict: Syria rebels deny pulling heavy arms from areas in north under deal
Progress: Trump and Kim Jong Un Meeting
Disaster: Hurricane Rosa could bring flooding to the USA
Consequence:
Prominence: Bill Cosby sentenced up to 3-10 years.
Novelty:2) What example news story does the Factsheet use to illustrate Galtung and Ruge's News Values? Why is it an appropriate example of a news story likely to gain prominent coverage?
The example given is "British servicewoman dies after Afghan bomb blast". This story is likely to gain prominent coverage as it covers most of the news values. It is on an intensity scale as the first female officer to be killed is considered more newsworthy as it is unusual. Afghanistan is a continuity story but often the interest in the story lies in the fact that deaths are not predictable.
3) What is gatekeeping?
8) How would you update them for 2018? Choose TWO of Galtung and Ruge's news values and say how they have been affected by the growth of digital technology.
Conflict: Syria rebels deny pulling heavy arms from areas in north under deal
Progress: Trump and Kim Jong Un Meeting
Disaster: Hurricane Rosa could bring flooding to the USA
Consequence:
Prominence: Bill Cosby sentenced up to 3-10 years.
Novelty:2) What example news story does the Factsheet use to illustrate Galtung and Ruge's News Values? Why is it an appropriate example of a news story likely to gain prominent coverage?
The example given is "British servicewoman dies after Afghan bomb blast". This story is likely to gain prominent coverage as it covers most of the news values. It is on an intensity scale as the first female officer to be killed is considered more newsworthy as it is unusual. Afghanistan is a continuity story but often the interest in the story lies in the fact that deaths are not predictable.
3) What is gatekeeping?
Gatekeeping is the process of filtering information prior to dissemination.
4) What are the six ways bias can be created in news?
4) What are the six ways bias can be created in news?
Bias through selection and omission
Bias through placement
Bias by headline
Bias by photos, captions, and camera angles
Bias through use of names and titles
Bias by choice of words
Bias through placement
Bias by headline
Bias by photos, captions, and camera angles
Bias through use of names and titles
Bias by choice of words
5) How have online sources such as Twitter, bloggers or Wikileaks changed the way news is selected and published?
The rise of e-media and the developments of technology are challenging the way media institutions gatekeep news. Wikileaks only publish raw material which bypasses news values, however this information is then passed onto news institutions who use the information for their own.
6) Complete the task on the last page of the Factsheet regarding Sky News and Twitter:
What does this reveal about how Sky views Twitter as a news source?
6) Complete the task on the last page of the Factsheet regarding Sky News and Twitter:
What does this reveal about how Sky views Twitter as a news source?
This shows how Sky use Twitter as a source to gather information to then use for their own agenda and way to present the news. This then shows how social media has become a reliable source of information and how quickly it is for news to get into circulation.
What does it say about how news is being produced?
This shows that news can be produced by anyone on social media as a simple picture or post can then be transformed and used as evidence in a news article or story.
What role does the audience have in this process?
The audience play a major role as it is them who post this evidence onto social media for news institutions to take and use as their own in their news stories.
Why might this be a problem for journalistic standards?
This could pose a problem as journalistic standards are lowered, as social media as allowed members of the audience to gather information and post onto social media of events occuring around the world, instead of journalistic themselves going out to find information and evidence for a news story.
7) In your opinion, how has the digital age changed Galtung and Ruge’s news values?
7) In your opinion, how has the digital age changed Galtung and Ruge’s news values?
In my opinion the digital age has changed the importance of some news values, for example the rise of clickbait has made unexpectedness more important and audiences are interested and encouraged to click a news stories which it's headline may seem 'out of the ordinary'.
8) How would you update them for 2018? Choose TWO of Galtung and Ruge's news values and say how they have been affected by the growth of digital technology.
The growth of digital technology has led to the increase in news stories becoming more and more clickbait. This has caused for the news value visual impact to become more important as audiences are likely to click on a news story which contains an interesting image of the article.
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