News Values

This news value is the "news today, not tomorrow," value.

• proximity
• timeliness
• consequence
• human interest

People who live in Debary care about Debary, but people who live in Georgia care less because they do not have....

• prominence 
• timeliness
• human interest
• proximity

Many news stories are read because they have a huge impact on their readers, or high ___________. 

• consequence
• proximity
• conflict
• currency

Celebrities make the news over small things because of the ______ news value

• prominence
• currency 
• human interest
• novelty

Weird news stories are posted because people find it interesting when something ____ happens, and it's surprising. 

• novel
• conflicting 
• current
• timely

Fights on campus are not usually reported, but kids like to hear about them because of this news value. 

• conflict
• human interest
• currency
• consequence

Stories that tug at your heart strings are related to 

• prominence
• proximity
• human interest
• currency

Some topics are only interesting because everyone is talking about them in this news value. 

• currency
• human interest
• proximity
• prominence