Title: Factors in Newsworthiness
Headings: Twelve Factors in Newsworthiness
Twelve Factors in Newsworthiness
Content: However, tomorrow, unless there are major new developments, the same story will probably not be important enough to mention. 2. Proximity: If 15 people are killed in your hometown, your local TV station will undoubtedly consider it news. But if 15 people are killed in Manzanillo, Montserrat, Moyobambaor, or some other distant place you've never heard of, it will probably pass without notice. But there are exceptions. 3. Exceptional quality: One exception centers on how the people died. If the people in Manzanillo were killed because of a bus or car accident, this would not be nearly as newsworthy as if they died from an earthquake or stings from "killer bees," feared insects that have now invaded the United States.