News Values

Familiarity:

Familiarity is whether the news is culturally close to us in Britain. We see changes here due to new and digital media as now we are able to use social networking sites such as Twitter to see whether the British public is tweeting about it. News reporters will be able to view what has been trending on twitter by the British public and are able to see whether it is worthy and if its interests the British public as the British want to see what they want to see.

Amplitude:

Old fashioned news used to be a bit late with any big events that may happen due to them not knowing about it as it may be a private event which may have been hosted by specific group. This would have meant that news would have been behind with the event. Now that new and digital media has come round, many of the certain people that do decide to organise or go to a certain event they will communicate on social networking sites.  News institutions are now able to go online and use new and digital media to their advantage. This would be done through looking at the most visited social networking sites like Facebook and see what’s been shared a lot. Facebook also have pages where people would be able create the page and write down all the details of the event like where it will be held for example. This would then be shared and news institutions will come across the page due to the amount of people viewing, liking and sharing the page. The page would also ask users if they will be attending which adds on to a list of how many people may be attending exactly. Due to this the news would be able to know if an event will be happening before hand and will know all about it like its purpose. They would also be able to see whether it is a big event judging by how many people will be attending.

Frequency:

News used to get their information of how long the event was by either interviewing people that have been to the event and have experienced it or by being there themselves. Now that new and digital media is available to people and institutions they are now able to see for themselves first hand. This being done by new and digital media as people who have been to the event would be able to record it then post it online on websites like YouTube. News institutions would be able to view the videos which were uploaded either professionally by the event hosts themselves or by the people that have attended. News institution would be able to get their information by simply watching what has happened in the event and how long it was and all other information that they are able to get form the videos they have viewed. They can then set up the news for the event that’s happened from information obtained from videos of how long it was and how long it had lasted. However, this could also be a bad event for example a murder.

Predictability:

News which had been predicted would have been obtained through interviewing people by journalists. Through new and digital media news institutions are not able to surf the internet and see what kind of views people have and what they predict may happen. For example predicting who would be elected for prime minister. News institutions would be able to make a judgment by viewing who’s trending the most on social networking sites by using simple hash-tags. Through this news institutions are able to make a judgement and predict who may win the elections that may take place. With the research they have found they are able to put into their news to show people as it would be a big interest to them. This is because audiences would want to know who may become prime minister. News institutions would also have viewed audience’s predictabilities as people now have more freedom and power due to new and digital media which means news institutions are able to view audience’s views on who may win, to see audience’s predictions.