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News values

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Select the news values from the options below

a)

Impact

b)

Lettuce

c)

Timeliness

d)

Coffee

e)

Prominence

2.

Select the news values from the options below

a)

Weight

b)

Basketball

c)

Prominence

d)

Novelty

e)

Usefulness

3.

Whats the meaning of usefulness

a)

The news article useful

b)

Being smart

c)

Showing respect

4.

Whats so important about weight news?

a)

People want to know how many pounds you weigh

b)

People want to know what could affect them as it affects others

c)

People want to know if a famous person is in the article

5.

An example of Weight is

a)

Nhi vs Losing her phone

b)

Education vs Corona

c)

Azi Vs losing a game

6.

What does weight mean in news?

a)

It means what is new

b)

It means how much pounds you weigh

c)

A story that includes how many & how seriously.

7.

What is timeliness?

a)

News that is printed in a timely manner

b)

Awesome news

c)

I have no idea

8.

Is timeliness real or fake?

a)

Awkward

b)

Fake

c)

Real

9.

Example of Timeliness in News

a)

Barack Obama becomes President

b)

Hurricane Laura

c)

Aizaiah is related to Frank

10.

What makes impact news worthy?

a)

People want to know how recent a specific current event happened.

b)

People want to know how seriously an event affected a certain amount of people.

c)

People want to know "the deets" about a certain social figure / famous celebrity.

11.

What news value is this story headline "Thousands of residents had to flee Texas and Louisiana, due to the Category 4 Hurricane coming their way"?

a)

Impact

b)

Conflict

c)

Timeliness

12.

An example of impact would be:

a)

The state of Hawai'i goes through economic struggles with lock-down during the Corona Virus Pandemic.

b)

A car crash occurred on the H3 Freeway this morning at 5 am.

c)

900+ Honolulu Hawai'i businesses closed down because of Covid-19.

13.

Which news value refers to the shock or “wow” factor of a news story and generally requires a story to affect a large group in a large way?

a)

Timeliness

b)

Breaking News

c)

Impact

d)

Proximity

14.

Which news value is newsworthy because two or more people, entities, groups or teams are opposing one another?

a)

Weight

b)

Proximity

c)

Conflict

d)

Novelty

15.

Which news value is information that the public needs to navigate the world?

a)

Novelty

b)

Conflict

c)

Tidbit

d)

Usefulness

16.

Which news value refers to harder-hitting stories and important developments in a story that would lose their newsworthiness if not reported as soon as possible?

a)

Immediacy

b)

Timeliness

c)

Novelty

d)

Weight

17.

Which news value applies to the people a news story is about? If the people are well-known, then the news story is deemed newsworthy.

a)

Conflict

b)

Celebrity

c)

Weight

d)

Prominence

18.

Which news value means the story is intriguing or has an interesting spin to it, not something you hear of everyday?

a)

Proximity

b)

Usefulness

c)

Conflict

d)

Novelty

19.

Which news value refers to the physical or emotional closeness of a news story to a media outlet’s audience?

a)

Timeliness

b)

Proximity

c)

Impact

d)

Neighboring

20.

Which news value is demonstrated by this headline?

(a)  

21.

Which news value is this front page an example of?

(a)  

22.

Which news value is demonstrated in this story?

(a)  

23.

Which news value includes how many & how seriously, but can also be measured by depth of pain, shock or how “out of character” or “unexpected” something might be?

a)

Weight

b)

Prominence

c)

Novelty

d)

Usefulness