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1) A test covering all material from weeks 1-6 will take place in week 7, including lectures, readings, homework, videos, and recitation materials. 2) The document discusses different definitions of news, factors that determine what becomes news, and how editorial judgment, audience interests, and competition between news outlets influence news decisions. 3) Key factors in determining news include importance, timeliness, proximity, magnitude, prominence, conflict, human interest, change, relevance, and unusualness; but ultimately news judgment considers what the audience wants versus needs and is influenced by competition for profits.
351 lecture5 handout
- 1. Week 5 What is News
- 4. TEST REMINDER Test in week 7,
- 5. TEST REMINDER Test in week 7, Covering all material through week 6:
- 6. TEST REMINDER Test in week 7, Covering all material through week 6: Lectures, readings, homework, videos, recitation materials
- 7. What is News and Who Decides?
- 8. What is News? August 28, 2011
- 9. A More Typical News Day: Differences in News Decisions Sept. 16, 2011
- 10. Definitions of News News is What’s On Society’s Mind
- 11. Definitions of News News Is any “Scoop”: Information That Makes a Reporters Primal Heart Beat Faster
- 12. Definitions of News News is What an Editor Thinks is News
- 13. Definitions of News News is Information Powerful People Don’t Want You to Have
- 14. Definitions of News News is Independent, Reliable, Accurate Information That Citizens Need to Be Free
- 16. Definitions of News “It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.”
- 17. Definitions of News News is What “We” think is fit and proper
- 18. Definitions of News News is Information About a Subject of Some Public Interest That is Shared and Subject to the Journalistic Process of Verification
- 19. Four Factors That Determine News
- 20. Four Factors That Determine News 1. Universal News Drivers 2. Editorial Judgment 3. The Audience 4. Profits and Competition
- 21. Factor 1: Universal News Drivers Importance Timeliness Proximity Magnitude Prominence Conflict Human Interest Change: (Progress and Regress) Relevance Unusualness
- 22. Universal News Drivers Importance
- 23. Universal News Drivers Timeliness
- 24. Universal News Drivers Proximity
- 25. Universal News Drivers Magnitude
- 27. Universal News Drivers Prominence
- 28. Universal News Drivers Conflict
- 29. Universal News Drivers Human Interest
- 30. Universal News Drivers Change
- 31. Universal News Drivers Of 305 species tracked by the Audubon Society, more than half are spending the winter about 35 miles farther north than they did 40 years ago, according to a study to be released today. Change
- 32. Universal News Drivers Syracuse, Pitt defect from Big East Change
- 33. Universal News Drivers Relevance
- 34. Universal News Drivers Unusualness
- 38. Factor 2: Editorial Judgment What’s Interesting vs. What’s Important Who is the Audience? Do You Give the Audience What it Wants or What it Needs? What is the Competition Doing? News Presentation
- 39. Real-time News Judgment (Your Turn in the Uneasy Chair) Place Each Story on the Matrix
- 40. Importance 4 3 2 1 Interest ‐4 ‐3 ‐2 ‐1 0 1 2 3 4 ‐1 ‐2 ‐3 ‐4
- 41. Place the story on the matrix
- 42. Place the story on the matrix
- 43. Place the Story on the Matrix
- 44. Place the Story on the Matrix
- 45. Place the story on the matrix
- 46. Factor 3, Audience What It “Needs” vs. What It Wants
- 47. Audience-Driven The Importance of the Customer in Making Decisions
- 48. Audiences Dictate (That’s You) Local and National News Broadcasts Demonstrate Different Definitions
- 49. Audience-Driven? Striking a Balance
- 50. How the Internet Redefines “News Judgment” Power shifts from editor to consumer
- 51. Why Is it big in Newsday, buried in the Times? Factor 4: Competition & Profit
- 52. Why News Media Couldn’t Resist This Story Factor 4: Competition & Profit
- 53. What is News? And Who Decides?
- 54. What is News? And Who Decides? (You…sort-of)
- 55. News Log Assignment The News Drivers Due in class next week
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