- Conflict - The Syria Conflict, War on Terror, ISIS
- Progress - StopFundingHate campaign, Britain coal power, "funnel" on Mars
- Disaster - New Zealand earthquake
- Consequence - David Cameron austerity cuts, Britain coal power
- Prominence - US Election 2016, John Lewis advert,
- Novelty - John Lewis advert, "funnel" on Mars
What example news story does the Factsheet use to illustrate Galtung and Ruge's News Values? Why is it an appropriate example of a news story likely to gain prominent coverage?
What is gatekeeping?
Gatekeeping process that results in news that is being sent for publication or distribution on any type of platform to be mediated or edited in one way or another to promote or reinforce a specific dominant reading.
What are the six ways bias can be created in news?
The six ways that bias can be created in news are through selection/omission, placement, use of names/titles, by headlines, photos, captions, camera angles and by choices of words.
How have online sources such as Twitter, bloggers or Wikileaks changed the way news is selected and published?
Online sources have changed the process of gatekeeping quite drastically. The process is a lot more minimal with these sources, such as Wikileaks which states it's a raw source of information. This leads to the fact that many online sources require minimal to almost no gatekeeping at all, they information that they publish is very rarely processed with specific agendas or preferred dominant readings.
Give an example of a news story from the last 12 months that was reported as a result of online technology - Twitter, Wikileaks or similar.
Panama Papers - The leaking of 11.5 million documents detailing financial and attorney-client information for more than 300,000 off shore entities which involved many high profile politicians and celebrities. It was leaked by an unknown anonymous source to several journalists and papers.
What does this reveal about how Sky views Twitter as a news source?
Sky views Twitter as a solid source of citizen journalism, as it is able to get people messaging them with evidence and content that have experienced the breaking news as first hand experience. It means that because of this quicker acquiring of content for their news outlet, they would be quicker in releasing news compared to their other competitors.
What does it say about how news is being produced?
It tells me quite clearly that due to the increase in social media and new digital media, the creation of news content has increased rapidly. The process of news content being created is a lot more quicker than it used to be which means that audiences are able to find out information a lot more quicker than they used to be able to.
What role does the audience have in this process?
Due to social media and new digital media, the audience is now able to play a critical role in the process of news creation which is they are essentially contributing a huge part to the aspect of citizen journalism. This is when the audience and consumers actually have the power to directly contact news outlets with content for the news and essentially on the role of both consumer and provider.
Why might this be a problem for journalistic standards?
This creates many problems for the news industry, especially considering that news journalists are experts in their fields, and news outlets go through a rigorous process of editing and mediation where low content news wouldn't necessarily reach the outlet. This means that as anyone can create their news that there would be a greater dilution in quality for news, as evident due to the major increase in clickbait articles and listicles in the modern era.
In your opinion, how has new and digital media technology changed Galtung and Ruge’s news values?
In my personal opinion, I do not think that new and digital media technology has changed the way Galtung and Ruge's news values are used in the modern era. This is due to the fact that I believe many if not all of them can still be applied and are generally used in the media industry as a way to determine which news values higher than others and how to adapt certain news stories, using the theory, in order to make sure it sells a lot more.
How would you update them for 2016? Choose SIX of Galtung and Ruge's news values and say how each one has been affected by the growth of new and digital technology.
What is gatekeeping?
Gatekeeping process that results in news that is being sent for publication or distribution on any type of platform to be mediated or edited in one way or another to promote or reinforce a specific dominant reading.
What are the six ways bias can be created in news?
The six ways that bias can be created in news are through selection/omission, placement, use of names/titles, by headlines, photos, captions, camera angles and by choices of words.
How have online sources such as Twitter, bloggers or Wikileaks changed the way news is selected and published?
Online sources have changed the process of gatekeeping quite drastically. The process is a lot more minimal with these sources, such as Wikileaks which states it's a raw source of information. This leads to the fact that many online sources require minimal to almost no gatekeeping at all, they information that they publish is very rarely processed with specific agendas or preferred dominant readings.
Give an example of a news story from the last 12 months that was reported as a result of online technology - Twitter, Wikileaks or similar.
Panama Papers - The leaking of 11.5 million documents detailing financial and attorney-client information for more than 300,000 off shore entities which involved many high profile politicians and celebrities. It was leaked by an unknown anonymous source to several journalists and papers.
What does this reveal about how Sky views Twitter as a news source?
Sky views Twitter as a solid source of citizen journalism, as it is able to get people messaging them with evidence and content that have experienced the breaking news as first hand experience. It means that because of this quicker acquiring of content for their news outlet, they would be quicker in releasing news compared to their other competitors.
What does it say about how news is being produced?
It tells me quite clearly that due to the increase in social media and new digital media, the creation of news content has increased rapidly. The process of news content being created is a lot more quicker than it used to be which means that audiences are able to find out information a lot more quicker than they used to be able to.
What role does the audience have in this process?
Due to social media and new digital media, the audience is now able to play a critical role in the process of news creation which is they are essentially contributing a huge part to the aspect of citizen journalism. This is when the audience and consumers actually have the power to directly contact news outlets with content for the news and essentially on the role of both consumer and provider.
Why might this be a problem for journalistic standards?
This creates many problems for the news industry, especially considering that news journalists are experts in their fields, and news outlets go through a rigorous process of editing and mediation where low content news wouldn't necessarily reach the outlet. This means that as anyone can create their news that there would be a greater dilution in quality for news, as evident due to the major increase in clickbait articles and listicles in the modern era.
In your opinion, how has new and digital media technology changed Galtung and Ruge’s news values?
In my personal opinion, I do not think that new and digital media technology has changed the way Galtung and Ruge's news values are used in the modern era. This is due to the fact that I believe many if not all of them can still be applied and are generally used in the media industry as a way to determine which news values higher than others and how to adapt certain news stories, using the theory, in order to make sure it sells a lot more.
How would you update them for 2016? Choose SIX of Galtung and Ruge's news values and say how each one has been affected by the growth of new and digital technology.
- Elite nations and people - It's interesting the way this has adapted, with the introduction of a lot more services such as Twitter and Instagram which allow celebrities to interact with their fans on a day to day basis, it means that celebrity news and gossip is a lot more likely to sell faster
- Predictability - I would like to argue that this has changed quite drastically, with news platforms many articles would create a preferred or dominant reading to give the audience a certain view. However, with the introduction of new and digital media, the audience can see the perspectives of many different audiences and this can alter whether or not there will be a surprise for certain news.
- Balance - Many news outlets would have purposely picked a balance of positive and negative news stories to affect the audiences, however with the introduction of new digital media, it's up to the audience if they want that balance, which can result in an imbalance
- Negativity - I would personally argue that this news value hasn't changed much, as bad news still sells a lot more but with new digital media, audiences can choose whether or not they want to be consuming negative news to a greater extent
- Immediacy - With the increase in citizen journalism due to an increase in new digital media, there is a greater speed in the way breaking news is presented to the audiences
- Unambiguity - Many news sources online no longer go through an extensive gate keeping process which results in a lot more ambiguous and opinionated news rather than hard cold facts.
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