Eight News Values

Which news value refers to harder-hitting stories and important developments in a story that would lose their newsworthiness if not reported as soon as possible?

• Timeliness

• Prominence

• Proximity

• Human Interest

Which news value applies to the people a news story is about? If the people are well-known, then the news story is deemed newsworthy.

• Prominence

• Impact

• Timeliness

• Usefulness

Which news value means the story is intriguing or has an interesting spin to it, not something you hear of everyday?

• Timeliness

• Novelty

• Prominence

• Currency

Today’s weather and traffic reports, election results, upcoming homecoming game, are all examples of...

• Usefulness

• Conflict

• TImeliness

• Impact

Ninety-eight alligators were found in the bedroom of a man who lives in Omaha, Nebraska.

• proximity

• oddity/novelty

• conflict

• impact

Which news value is demonstrated by this headline?

• Impact

• Conflict

• Usefulness

• Both Impact & Conflict

• All of the answers are correct

Which news value refers to the physical or emotional closeness of a news story to a media outlet’s audience?

• Proximity

• Prominence

• Impact

• Human Interest

"Man's life saved after 2 Maricopa residents step up to perform CPR"

• Impact

• Proximity

• Timeliness

• Human Interest

Which news value is demonstrated in this story?

• Conflict

• Timeliness

• Proximity

• Currency

Which news value is newsworthy because two or more people, entities, groups or teams are opposing one another?

• Impact

• Prominence

• Proximity

• Conflict