This PowerPoint helps students to consider the concept of infinity.
News determinants presentation umt 2012 ppt
1. News Determinants
(Introduction To Journalism)
Submitted to Muhammad Ahmad Sheikh
(Emeritus Professor at UMT). Ex- Deputy
Controller Radio Pakistan)
4. Timeliness
News is perishable. It loses value as it
ages.
Readers want to know now. What
happened yesterday, last night, or this
morning is more newsworthy than
what happened last week.
5. Prominence
Important people are newsworthy; others
aren’t.
Politicians, actors, singers--
anyone in the public arena or
public eye--are newsworthy.
6. Proximity
News closer to home has more news
value than that from far away.
A fire in Mexico is less
newsworthy than a fire in your
hometown. However, if something
happens far away but involves
local people, then the news value
increases because of proximity
7. Human Interest
1) Oddity:
Readers are intrigue by the unusual or
out-of-the-ordinary.
It is unusual for people to
know that a man shot
himself in the head.
9. 3) Emotion
Readers become emotionally involved in
stories about children, animals, etc. Other
stories can evoke humor, sympathy, anger,
etc.
10. Negativity
Bad news is more newsworthy than good
news.
Shahid Afridi hits his
fan.
11. Consequence
News which directly affects readers has
more news value.
The greater the impact of
the information upon the
readers, or the more
readers affected by the
information, the greater
the news value of that
information.
Notes de l'éditeur
Submitted to Muhammad Ahmad Sheikh (Emeritus Professor at UMT). Ex- Deputy Controller Radio Pakistan)