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A Note from Mrs. Vanek:
Hi everyone!The information from this presentation will be used in a discussion in the following class period. You will also use them to answer questions (daily grade) and a test (test grade). There will also be a project in which you and your partner will create a poster.
So make sure you… TAKE GOOD NOTES!
A Note from Mrs. Vanek:
Hi everyone!The information from this presentation will be used in a discussion in the following class period. You will also use them to answer questions (daily grade) and a test (test grade). There will also be a project in which you and your partner will create a poster.
So make sure you… TAKE GOOD NOTES!
•News may be opinion, especially that of a prominent person or an authority on a particular subject.
•is timely
•usually about events in government, politics, foreign affairs, education, labor, religion, courts, etc.
•often less timely than hard news
•includes human interest and feature stories which may relate to hard news
Hard news, despite its importance, usually attracts fewer readers because it may not be as interesting as soft news or may be more difficult to understand.
Readers may not understand the significance of some hard news stories. Reporters must be careful to include information to help the reader understand what the story means and how the story relates (or is important) to the reader.
Many stories are a combination of hard and soft news, and may present some of the information in sidebars and infographics. A sidebar is a small story that appears next to or near a larger story on the page. An infographic is just what it sounds like: a graphic that conveys information in a reader-friendly way (like a chart that is very easy to read and is pleasing to look at). We see a lot of infographics during election years.)
News must be factual.
•News is based on actual occurrences, situations, thoughts and ideas.
•Yet not all facts are news.
News must be interesting.•But not all facts are interesting. Sometimes they are WAY boring.
•Different facts will be interesting to different readers.
News elements help to make facts
interesting to people.
You will learn EIGHT different news
elements.
3.Consequence•A story that affects every reader will have more consequence than one that affects only a few.
The more prominent a particular name, place, event or situation, the more interest the story will have.
7.Emotion/Human Interest•Readers enjoy stories that appeal to their emotions.
•These are human interest stories
Generally the most widely read stories in the newspaper, and most widely discussed of those heard on radio or television.
•Stories about the home-less, babies needing trans-plants, a 4-year-old girl abandoned in freezing wea-ther who must have her legs amputated, baby girls rescued from wells, some-one winning the lottery
How do News Editors decide which stories make the front page or get placed at the top of a newscast? They use their knowledge of News Elements. This is called News Judgement.
A number of factors modify the importance of news elements (and thus, the news story) in actual practice. This refers to the story’s news value.
Timing may alter the value of a news story. All news is in competition with the news available at the moment.
•Censorship, particularly in war time or times of national crisis, may change news value, sometimes keeping stories from being published for long periods of time.
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