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 News value essay: 400-800 words News values is about how professionals decide on what is newsworthy, how to attract an audience in newspapers, on line and social news. News values  (1981 study by Galtung and Ruge)  is a criteria used by media outlets e.g newspapers to determine how important stories are. According to former Times and Sunday Times Editor, Harold Evans, a newsworthy story consists of some of the few listed below: 1.        necessary information and  unusual events 2.        based on  observable facts 3.       should be an  unbiased  account 4.       should be  free  from the reporter’s opinion the news article i analysed was called ‘a look at the catholic churches sex scandals’ , which is quite a broad topic to be discussed in the media. This article uses proximity, proximity means news close to home or geographically. For example, cases of sex scandals have been raised in Ireland and America which are both tightly linked to the United Kingdom, thus mak

News values is about how professionals decide on what is newsworthy, how to attract an audience in newspapers, on line and social news.  News values (1981 study by Galtung and Ruge) is a criteria used by media outlets e.g newspapers to determine how important stories were; According to former Times and  Sunday  Times Editor, Harold Evans, a news story: is about necessary information and unusual events should be based on observable facts should be an unbiased account should be free from the reporter’s opinion  Negativity  - Bad news is always highly more rated than good news, because it's more exciting and interests the readers more. Proximity  - Stories that involve people from their own countries or stories that are close to people geographically.  Recency  - newspapers are generally competitive about breaking news. Currency   - This is the opposite to recency, stories that have been in the public eye that are deemed valuable e.g the Madeleine McCann c