News Values

Immediacy: has it happened recently?

Immediacy is more important than ever due to news breaking on Twitter or elsewhere online. However, this in turn changes the approach of other news sources such as newspapers as the news will probably already be broken so different angles might be required. Newspapers now contain more comment or opinion rather than the breaking story.

Familiarity: is it culturally close to us in Britain?
Familiarity in my opinion is less important, this is because social media has become more and more international, meaning that news stories are now online before they are in the news, meaning the news may have to search for different news in different places.
Amplitude: is it a big event or one which involves large numbers of people?
Big event stories have been taken over by websites and social media, meaning other news sources have to put an extra spin on the story by bringing in other people to shed their expertise on the story.
 Frequency: did the event happen fairly quickly?
Frequency is very important, because breaking news stories are harder to come by due to social media. So news sources have to rely on events that happen quite quickly n order to report breaking news. This is because if social media gets it first, its not regarded as "breaking"
Unambiguity: is it clear and definite?
This is now harder for news sources to figure this out because social media and newspaper websites allow comments, which means there are many sides and avenues that people can now read, leaving a many sides to an argument meaning other news sources may get confused.
Predictability: did we expect it to happen?
On social media, different people are more in the public eye, so when they tweet or caption something, people can try and look into it, meaning when they do something wrong, it could have been a build up of something that the tweeted about.

Surprise: is it a rare or unexpected event?
I think there is surprise on social media as well as news because there is only a certain amount of  journalism someone can do, meaning there can be certain issues like unexpected deaths that journalist couldn't get to until the story was released. 

Continuity: has this story already been defined as news?
There is a lot of stories that can be seen as continuity on social media as there is always more news from someone on social media. Depending on whether it gets enough coverage, it may get on to other news sources. 

Elite nations and people: which country has the event happened in? Does the story concern well-known people? 
Big countries in the world like America it would get more coverage on social networking than countries such as a smaller one. If it is America it would affect most people in the world including us in the UK, due to trade, however if it was Grenada, it wouldn't affect as many people. People in Grenada may be tweeting it, but it wouldn't trend and other people wouldn't see it.
Negativity: is it bad news?
I think by having social media, anything can be bad news, depending on the points of views people have, however, depending on the majority, news sources will have to see if most people think it is bad news or not.


Balance: the story may be selected to balance other news, such as a human survival story to balance a number of stories concerning death.