News Values

Media: News Values- 3/11/17 Convergence: Referring to the coming together of platforms, techs, devices in media. Todays news is conversed and dispersed across a range of platforms and with a huge range of sources/ producers, including audiences who share the news and alter its meaning by adding their own hyperlinks and comments. Galtung and Ruge (1981) These theorist argued that news is structured according to unspoken values, rather than discovered. Here are some of their key terms. Frequency This values is to do with the time scale of events perceived to be newsworthy. Need to be more frequent to favoured in news coverage. Threshold The is the size of an event that's needed for it to be considered newsworthy. Commonly occurring events happening. Proximity This value is to do with how close to home a story is. For example in 2017 the terror attacks in London and Manchester got more coverage in the UK than those are Somalia. Ideological agenda. The other Non-white people in the media are often defined according to what makes them different from the (white) majority. These values are usually negative. The News industry- 6/11/17 News corporation (2010) $32.7 billion total revenue $7 billion Cable network £7.6 billion Filmed entertainment Rupert Murdoch: Born in Australia Father owned a newspaper company, he inherited it. 800 companies in 50 countries. Tabloid style of journalism He resigned, however still consumes money. News corp: A conglomerate that owns: Financial news services Wireless media (Radio.Inc, Talksport and Virgin Radio) HarperCollins (Book Publisher) New York Post News U News Values: 8/11/17 If it's news, it's generally bad. Predictability, although a key convection of news is to present events as surprising, actually a lot of these are predictable. Continuity and narrative, news involves story-telling just like fiction, and it is convenient for journalist to cover stories which are likely to continue over a period of time, with news events unfolding. Brexit is a good example of a story with great potential for continuity and narrative storytelling.