News

News are agenda

1)Some serious and not so serious defination of news.
2)The evolution of views on what are news.
3)A brief overview of news questions.
4)A couple of news questions
5)A brief discussion of news values(New and old).

News: yesterday,today

1)News exists because people need information about their world.
2)Yesterday:Journalism began as pamphleteering and polemics(revolutionary press in 18th/19th centuries)
3)Today:20th century - the age of industrial journalism
a) News becomes a commodity
b) The public interest fights with private commercial interests.
4)News is now a global business

News: tomorrow

1)The world of news and journalism changing.
a) Digital technology creates new forms of news and new ways of doing journalism.
b) The line between journalists and non-journalists is blurring.
c) The line between news and entertainment has almost disappeared.

5)Professional and accidental:

a)Professional journalists - based in news,organizations or freelancing.
a.1)Are usually paid for defined work in news.
a.2)Usually have some form of training.
a.3)Are expected to abide by an ethical code practice.

b)Accidental journalists
b.1)Usually have no training.
b.2)Have no formal code of ethics

6)News and convergence
a)An expsnding community of reporters
a.1)Citizen journalists
a.2)Bloggers
a.3)Social networking "News"
b)Paltform shift
b.1)News are everywhere now
b.2)News are available 24/7
b.3)The economics of news are changing.

7) News what we say it is
a)The 'old school' view that the editor knows best.
b)News is what the audience wants - and our research tells us what the
audience wants.
c)News is what we can sell - whats profitable.
d)News is anything that the nerworks can cover live

"The public have an insatiable curiousity to know everything.Except what is worth knowing.Journalism,conscious of this,and having tradesman-like habits,suppliers their demands".Oscar wilde

"Journalism is first rough draft of history".phil graham,publisher of the washington post circa 1963.

"Journalism is theater [is what] tv news is" Thomas griffith,Journalist and editor at time

"Journalism is organized gossip." Edward Eggleston,Writer and methodist minister(1837-1902).

News are about social issues.

"The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." Finleyu peter Dunne(1867-1936)

"News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress;all the rest is advertising." Alfred Harmsworth - later,Lord Northcliffe

News are entertaining

"People may expect too much of journalism.Not only do they expect it to be entertaining,they expect it to be true." Lewis H Lapham

News are hole filler

"Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space"

Rebecca west,actress & journalist(1892-1985)

"It is amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day
always just exactly fits the newspaper."
Jerry seinfeld

"A news sense is really a sense of what is important,what is vital,what has color and life-What people are interested in.Thats Journalism"
Burton Rascoe

News are based on questions
1)News reporters have six basic jumping off points for their enquiries.
a)Who?
b)What?
c)Where?
d)When?
e)Why?
f)How?

"There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great." walter Lippmann.

News are values

News values - the key ingredient in the mix

1)Public interest
2)Timeless
3)Novelty
4)Conflict
5)Proximity
6)Consequence
7)Public curiosity
8)Celebrity
9)Emotion
10)Comparison
11)Contradiction

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