Title: News Values | NCCAT
Headings: News Values
News Values
What Are the Seven News Values?

Content: For the same occurrence, people in the public eye have higher news value than obscure people. For example, we cared that basketball pro Magic Johnson and actor Rock Hudson had AIDS, while an ordinary citizen with AIDS would not have commanded the attention of the national news media. 04 Proximity: Stories about events and situations in one’s home community are more newsworthy than events that take place far away. For example, journalists assess the value of a news item reporting tragic deaths by comparing the number of deaths with the distance from the home community. For instance: If 1,000 persons drown in a flood in a faraway country, the story has about the same news value as a story describing how 100 persons drowned in a distant part of the United States. In turn, that 100 person story has about the same news value as a story concerning 10 flood victims within our own state. Finally, a story about those ten victims has about the same value as a story describing a flood that drowns one person in our local community. 05 Bizarreness: