Newsworthiness

This newsworthiness value refers to something happening now, recently, or soon.

• Timeliness

• Human Interest

• Rarity

• Prominence

If a story affects the readers and community directly in their daily lives, it has...

• Conflict

• Timeliness

• Proximity

• Rarity

Readers are drawn to events, issues and ideas that have competing views. Which newsworthiness value does it have?

• Rarity

• Reader Impact

• Human Interest

• Conflict

If a story will inform the reader's decisions and plans, it has...

• Prominence

• Reader Impact

• Human Interest

• Timeliness

Someone or something well-known says or does something, it may have...

• Timeliness

• Proximity

• Prominence

• Rarity

These stories are different, haven't been seen or heard, and do not happen often.

• Prominence

• Human Interest

• Timeliness

• Rarity

These stores connect with people because they share something about what it inherently means to be human.

• Rarity

• Conflict

• Timeliness

• Human Interest