NEWS VALUE AND IT'S TYPES

1. WHAT ARE NEWS VALUES?
NewsValues are guidelines which are used while preparing a news to
make it worthy.They are the pillars which use for make a worthy and
bigger news.

2. DIFFERENT TYPES OF NEWS VALUES
 Timeliness
 Proximity
 Impact
 Controversy
 Magnitude
 Prominence
 Currency
 Oddity/Novelty

3. TIMELINESS
 Timeliness means freshness in news.
 Recent events have higher news value than
earlier happenings.
 If you are providing breaking news instantly,
so it has worth.
 Example: If Pakistan won cricket match with
India and you are publishing that news after
two days, so there is no timeliness in that
news.

4. PROXIMITY
 Proximity means closeness to home.
 Stories about events and situations in one’s
home community are more worthy than
events that take place far away.
 EXAMPLE: If 100 people died in a bus crash in
your city, so obviously people concern with
that news, while the same kind of incident
happen in Iran.

5. IMPACT
 The number of people whose lives will be
influenced in some way by the subject of the
story.
 The impact of the story quickly establishes
the importance of the piece to the reader,
and the consequences for the reader
themselves.
 EXAMPLE:The AsianTsunami will create
more impact than local flood.

6. CONTROVERSY
 Arguments, debates and fights increase the
value of news.
 If there is conflict in the news it will be much
worthy, but it has to be relate with any
historical controversy.
 EXAMPLE: If US President discuss with Indian
Prime Minister on Kashmir Issue, so there is
controversy for Pakistani audience.

7. MAGNITUDE
 Quantity of news depends a lot in news.
 Events whose no. of people involved is of
paramount importance or whose impact
concerns a great number of people have
magnitude.
 EXAMPLE: If five students protest against the
framing of rods outside educational institute
so it means there is magnitude in that news.

8. PROMINENCE
 People are naturally curious about those
people who are famous or have power.
 For the same occurence, people in the public
eye have higher news value than obscure
people.
 EXAMPLE: If Mahira Khan has Cancer, so this
news gives value while an ordinary cancer
patient would not have commanded the
attention of worthy news.

9. CURRENCY
 Currency means frequency in news.
 More value is attributed to stories that are in
the spotlight of public concern rather than to
issues about which people care less.
 It can be follow-up of any raising issue.
 EXAPMLE: If murder and abduction of a
young boy is running for weeks and weeks, so
people will wait for further developments and
turning point of that issue.

10. NOVELTY
 Novelty means any interesting fact or
uniqueness in a story which you do not hear
ever before.
 It means now unusual is the subject of your
story.
 EXAMPLE:World’s tallest man Sultan Kosen
ofTurkey having height of 8 feet and 3 inches,
while world’s smallest women Jyoti Amage of
India got fame due to their unique heights, so
this news has novelty.