Monday, April 15, 2013

criteria of a news story

Criteria 1: unusalness
Definition: out of the ordinary
Example plane crash

Criteria 2: significance
Definition: it is important to many people
Example: a new president

Criteria 3: timeliness
Definition: the news is being told while it is happening
Example: story on a snow storm during spring time

Criteria 4: proximity
Definition: near by events
Example: car crash in Kansas

Criteria 5: prominence
Definition: when well know people are places are involved
Example: if the eprire state building is involved in a news story

Criteria 6: human interest
Definition: emotional and personal appeal that draws our attention
Example: a small baby fighting cancer, and winning.

2. On page 23 it discusses the differences between print journalism and broadcast journlism.  Please describe 3 ways they are different and explain. print journalism provides a more full coverage, but broadcast journalism provide more dramatic stories. the three differences are dramatic, in depth, and readers act as their own editors. 

3.  List all the criteria the story we watched at the beginning of class fits under and why.
unusalness, prominence, and human interest, because the story involved a major highway I-94, you dont normally see pigs in a crash, and because it peaks human interest or at least it got mine.

4.  List all the criteria the 2nd story we watched fits under and why.
unusalness, human interest, and significance, because you dont normally see two dogs that are together for their whole life, and its even more rare that one gets blind and the other gets def. it has the human interest because a lot of people have dogs that they love, and thats also why it is significance.

5.  List all the criteria the 3rd story we watched fits under and why.
significance, prominence, because lots of people go out and watch movies so knowing about their favorite actors is important to them. the story had prominence because their were a lot of famous movie stars that were in that news clip. 

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