Newsworthiness

How will this affect my readers’ lives?

• Impact

• Timeliness

• Rarity

• Human Interest

Why are you telling me this now?

• Proximity

• Novelty

• Timeliness

• Human Interest

Events are more newsworthy the closer they are to the community reading about them.

• Human Interest

• Novelty

• Proximity

• Prominence

Events are more newsworthy when they involve public figures.

• Prominence

• Timeliness

• Rarity

• Impact

A news story about a local politician would be considered newsworthy because of its proximity and because it involves someone of prominence.

• True

• False

What is a human interest story? Choose all that apply.

• A story that is of interest to people outside of the immediate story, designed to engage the attention and empathy of others to a particular situation, person or event.

• A story that has a unique value and speaks to a wide array of people, such as a twelve year old being accepted into a major research university or winning a Nobel Peace Prize.

• A news story about someone robbing the corner store in the neighborhood.

• A news story that evokes such strong emotions from masses of people that they take to the streets to protest in a global manner.

What can we infer from the caption?

• British and Pakistan works together for COVID-19

• Many people lose life because of COVID-19

• A Britsh cancer specialist finds vaccine for COVID-19

• A cancer specialist dies in UK because of COVID-19

Events are more newsworthy if people care about the subject.

• Novelty

• Human Interest

• Proximity

• Rarity

Events that are unusual, dramatic or of human interest appeal to the media.

• Rarity

• Proximity

• Timeliness

• Novelty

Events that are unusual are more newsworthy

• Rarity

• Timeliness

• Novelty

• Proximity