The document discusses several factors that influence whether a news story is considered "newsworthy" by journalists: 1. Stories about powerful individuals, organizations, or institutions (the power elite), famous celebrities, entertainment, sex, or that surprise or have unexpected elements tend to be newsworthy. 2. Stories with positive news like rescues or cures, large scope/impact (magnitude), relevance to the audience, or that continue news topics (follow-up) are also more likely to be selected. 3. Negative stories involving conflict, tragedy, or that fit the news organization's agenda are also more apt to be chosen as newsworthy.

1. Obj - What impact does the increase
in global media have on media
production?

2. Harcup and O’Neill
Harcup and O’Neill in a survey of British Newspapers in 1999 found that news stories must
generally satisfy one or more of the following requirements to be selected as ‘newsworthy.’
Stories are ‘newsworthy’ if they involve:
• THE POWER ELITE. • GOOD NEWS.
• Stories concerning powerful individuals, • Stories with particularly positive
organisations or institutions. overtones such as rescues and cures.
• CELEBRITY. • MAGNITUDE.
• Stories concerning people who are • Stories that are perceived as sufficiently
already famous. significant either in the numbers of
• ENTERTAINMENT. people involved or in potential impact.
• Stories concerning sex, show business, • RELEVANCE.
human interest, animals, an unfolding • Stories about issues, groups and nations
drama, or offering opportunities for perceived to be relevant to the
humorous treatment, entertaining audience.
photographs or witty headlines. • FOLLOW-UP.
• SURPRISE. • Stories about subjects already in the
• Stories that have an element of surprise news.
and/or contrast. • NEWSPAPER AGENDA.
• BAD NEWS. • Stories that set or fit the news
• Stories with particularly negative organisation’s own agenda
overtones, such as conflict or tragedy.

3. Dennis McShane
• identified five criteria used by journalists in
their selection of news stories:
– Conflict
– Hardship and danger to community
– The unusual
– Scandal
– Individualism
Does your Al Jazeera and BBC work confirm this?

5. Your task
• Track the story of the ‘Arab Spring’ on the
both the BBC news and Al Jazeera
• Focusing on specific stories from EGYPT and
SYRIA
• Where, when, what, to whom

6. Your Own Work
• How did you navigate the source material?
• What was provided for you to learn this
information?
• What information/stories were
highlighted/drawn attention to?
• How engaging were the stories?
• What were the differences between the two
presentations?
• Ext - How were the stories crafted in order to
engage the readers/surfers?

7. Two contrasting theories – criticise
them!
• Bauman 1998 • Waters 1995
• Globalization divides as much • In a globalized world there will
as it unites; it divides as it be a single society and culture
unites – the causes of division occupying the planet… it will
being identical with those be a society without borders
which promote the uniformity and spatial boundaries.
of the globe. • We can define globalization as
• What appears as globalization a social process in which the
for some means localization constraints of geography on
for others; signalling a new social and cultural
freedom to some , upon many arrangements recede and in
others it descends as an which people become
uninvited and cruel fate. increasingly aware that they
are receding.

8. What impact does the increase in global
media have on media production?
• Decide on which theories/argument will fit
this question.
• Decide on the fact your are going to use – this
can be specific news stories, features of your
companies, elements in their online provision.

9. Drafting a paragraph – TEAL2
• Theory – McLuhan argues ...
• Evidence – This is evident in ...
• Analysis – This indicates that ... as
• Link 2 – Also, however, additionally, this is
also

11. Homework