Values and Practices

• What do Galtung and Ruge refer to as news values?

  Journalists who report the news learn to follow certain rules and ideas which tend to be based on what they believe he public wants to hear about

  There are different news values which influence the news the Média chooses to represent
• What are Bureaucratic News Values?

  • News should be current
  • News should be simple
  • News should be brief
  • Big news is better than small news
• What is Cultural News Values?

  • News should be unexpected
  • News should focus on important people
  • News should be relevant o the audience
  • Bad mews is preferred to good news
• Journalists Key Practices - Agenda Setting

  • Journalists and editors control the news agenda
  • News only becomes news when journalists and editors select it as news
  • When a story is selected journalists and editors choose which angle to take when reporting it
  • This has a direct effect on how the audience will perceive the story
  • Agenda setting may not be conscious. It comes from learnt practices, normally based on what attracts the audiences attention
• Journalists Key Practices - Gatekeeping

  • Gains described how the editor decides which stories are featured and how much space is given to each story
  • Gains said Its like a gate, the editor opens it for some stories and closes it for others
  • Dutton argued that the editors filter the news by choosing which stories to print