hello friends,

can anyone tell us what is the difference between "news components" and "news values"

news values are, i believe, its newness, uniqueness, proximity, prominence etc anything that adds value to news and makes it news.....if that is so then what are news components??

These three factors are components of news:
1. Facts
2. Interest
3. Audience
News must be factual, it should be based upon actual occurrence, situation, thoughts and ideas.
News must be interesting. But not all facts are interesting. Also the degree and breadth of interest vary. One news may have a high degree of interest for only a small number of people. Another news may have some interest for a larger number. The importance of news depends upon the audience.

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thanks but don't u think these are also the same as news values..kindly dileneate the difference between news values and news components.

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News values are those which make the value of the news, if anyone or more of these are missing then a news is also a news, but the three news components are the vital parts of a news, if any of the component is missing then the news does not remain a news.

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news values

1.news should be accurate
2.news should be objective
3.news must be concise and clear
4. news must be balanced/should not depict prejudice.

news components

1. news must be fresh(immediacy factor)
2. anything odd is news
3. drama is an important component of news
4. conflict
5. prominence(news should contain the name of prominent persons,places)

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they must b

New
human intrest
conflict
controversy
starng bedfellows
Local
visual/colorful
Timely

In the book by Mirza Muhammad Yousaf it is the other way round:

News Value:
1. Timeliness (News must be fresh)
2. Novelty or unusually ( anything odd)
3. Suspense, mystery, adventure ( drama)
4. Conflict
5. Prominence (as in well acquainted public figures, places things etc)

Components of News (or requisites)

1. Accuracy
2. Balance
3. Objectivity
4. Precise and concise

Kindly guide us on this....

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Definitions

1.Values/Quality : The quality (Positive or negative) that depicts something desirable or valuable.

2.Components/Elements/factors/constituents/Parts/Gradients: Component mean a part of something.

Do you think conflict will increase the value of the news?

Same goes for element of Drama,Suspense,Oddity.

Values basically makes the news worth reading.

I have consulted two books.

Competitive Journalism by Abid Tehami
Mass Communication by Imtiaz shahid
And Notes.

I elaborated the terms Values and Components to calrify the meanings so that you may assess yourself what should be the right answer.

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Components of news
1. New—To get their attention, your story should be current, timely, and fresh. It
is a late-breaking development, something happening right now, a steaming
campaign or new report.
2. Local—It should tie into what is going on in that particular community. Even
if you are often campaigning on a national or international campaign, find a
local angle, such as the potential impact on a local community. And definitely
hold your event at the local branch of the international corporation you’re
targeting.
3. Human Interest Angle—Try to put a human face on your story, such as a
local child who suffers asthma attacks on bad smog days, a former Ford
employee, etc.
4. Conflict—A story with a hard-fought conflict makes news. Describe to
reporters who the good guys and bad guys are. Examples: Our campaign to
support the Grassy Narrows First Nation community’s struggle to stop
industrial logging was covered as Weyerhaeuser v Native Community.
5. Controversy—Anything controversial is more likely to get news coverage.
Civil disobedience pretty much always gets media.
6. Strange Bedfellows—We can often garner increased news coverage by
building a coalition of strange bedfellows, a coalition that contradicts most
reporters assumptions of who supports environmental campaigns. For
example, we worked former CIA director James Woolsey to advocate for
Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles and Iraq vets who want auto companies to
stop driving a war for oil.
7. Visuals/ Colorful quotes and images.
Dramatic images—a fake oil spill on a beach, a huge STOP sign that says
“STOP Weyerhaeuser,” Blown-up photos of the place that is being put at
risk.
Creative and fun images—we’ve had a ton of traction for wearing white
“hazmat” suits and looking for “Investments of Mass Destruction” at JP
Morgan Chase’s headquarters. Our Boise campaign is famous for having
a gigantic blow-up dinosaur with a t-shirt that said “I (HEART) Destroying
Old Growth.”

Event visuals: Dozens of people marching backwards to protest a
“backwards” policy, big banner hangs on the side of buildings.
Some visuals are already there, like shots of the beautiful natural areas
we want to protect, but often times we need to create a big visual for it to
be enticing to TV.
8. Timely—Can your story be linked to an upcoming holiday or season?
Examples would include using Independence Day to talk about how America
needs to declare independence from oil or April Fools Day to talk about
“Fossil Fools.”

NEWS VALUE………

• “first” “most”? Don’t forget to make that part of your pitch.Frequency: Events that occur suddenly and fit well with the news organization's schedule are more likely to be reported than those that occur gradually or at inconvenient times of day or night. Long-term trends are not likely to receive much coverage.
• Negativity: Bad news is more newsworthy than good news.
• Unexpectedness: If an event is out of the ordinary it will have a greater effect than something that is an everyday occurrence.
• Unambiguity: Events whose implications are clear make for better copy than those that are open to more than one interpretation, or where any understanding of the implications depends on first understanding the complex background in which the events take place.
• Personalization: Events that can be portrayed as the actions of individuals will be more attractive than one in which there is no such "human interest."
• Meaningfulness: This relates to the sense of identification the audience has with the topic. "Cultural proximity" is a factor here -- stories concerned with people who speak the same language, look the same, and share the preoccupations as the audience receive more coverage than those concerned with people who speak different languages, look different and have different preoccupations.
• Reference to elite nations: Stories concerned with global powers receive more attention than those concerned with less influential nations.
• Reference to elite persons: Stories concerned with the rich, powerful, famous and infamous get more coverage.
• Conflict: Opposition of people or forces resulting in a dramatic effect. Stories with conflict are often quite newsworthy.
• Consonance: Stories that fit with the media's expectations receive more coverage than those that defy them (and for which they are thus unprepared). Note this appears to conflict with unexpectedness above. However, consonance really refers to the media's readiness to report an item.
• Continuity: A story that is already in the news gathers a kind of inertia. This is partly because the media organizations are already in place to report the story, and partly because previous reportage may have made the story more accessible to the public (making it less ambiguous).
• Composition: Stories must compete with one another for space in the media. For instance, editors may seek to provide a balance of different types of coverage, so that if there is an excess of foreign news for instance, the least important foreign story may have to make way for an item concerned with the domestic news. In this way the prominence given to a story depends not only on its own news values but also on those of competing stories. (Galtung and Ruge, 1965)
• Competition: Commercial or professional competition between media may lead journalists to endorse the news value given to a story by a rival.
• Co-optation: A story that is only marginally newsworthy in its own right may be covered if it is related to a major running story.
• Prefabrication: A story that is marginal in news terms but written and available may be selected ahead of a much more newsworthy story that must be researched and written from the ground up.
• Predictability: An event is more likely to be covered if it has been pre-scheduled. (Bell, 1991)
• Time constraints: Traditional news media such as radio, television and daily newspapers have strict deadlines and a short production cycle, which selects for items that can be researched and covered quickly.
• Logistics: Although eased by the availability of global communications even from remote regions, the ability to deploy and control production and reporting staff, and functionality of technical resources can determine whether a story is covered. (Schlesinger, 1987)