News Values Test

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

• Proximity

• Timeliness

• Consequence

• Bizarre

News that is reported in our community is "proximity".

• True

• False

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

• Human Interest

• Prominence

• Proximity

• Timeliness

What are the five news values we have learned in class so far.....

• Timeliness

  Conflict and Controversy

  Human Interest

  Prominence

  Relevance

• Proximity

  Timeliness

  Human Interest

  Conflict and Controversy

  Relevance

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

• Conflict and Controversy

• Relevance

• Proximity

• Timeliness

 

Stories that tug at your heart strings are related to 

• Conflict and Controversy

• Relevance

• Human Interest

Which is NOT a news element...

• Timeliness

• Political

• Proximity

• Conflict and Controversy

We announce the lunch menu each day.

• Relevance

• Conflict and Controversy

• Timeliness

• Human Interest

Timeliness : The time of day effects how the story is being told (news radio is good at this). Its better to be right than to be first. It must be checked out first.

Ex: Fire in a building happened yesterday it is timely, but if it happened 2 months ago and there are no new big developments there's no need for further reports.

• True

• False

What is relevance news value?

News creators and news audiences alike understand relevance as a core news value, but they understand it in different ways. Relevance is not really a static property of news stories; instead, it's a relationship negotiated between audience and story (and, less visibly, the story's creator).

• False

• True