Criteria of Newsworthiness

Identify, define, and give an example of the 6 criteria of newsworthiness.

Criteria 1: Unusualness

Definition: The different, the unusual, and the out of the ordinary.

Example: An airplane crashing.

Criteria 2: Significance

Definition: Important events, ones that affect many people.

Example: Taxes, elections, wars, scientific discoveries.

Criteria 3: Timeliness

Definition: when it is happeneing, not what happened awhile ago.

Example: Aflood, hurricane, tornado.

Criteria 4: Proximity

Definition:What's going on nearby.

Example: Asbestos problem in the local school, new state tax law.

Criteria 5: Prominence

Definition: Well know people, places or buildings are involved.

Example: If a movie star is arrested for shoplifting.

Criteria 6: Human Interest

Definition: Ordinary people/animals, humorous or dramatic storied, heartwarming or heart-wrenching stories.

Example: Minister who runs a drop-in center for troubled teenages, vet who specializes in elephants, sand castle competition.

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 goes more indepth and provides more coverage of the story. Newspapers cover many topics so the reader can choose what they want to read about, and magazines provide many stories as well the just aren't all in a short period of time. Tv news is the most dramatic, and viewers can actually see what is going on and what is hapening.

3. List all the criteria the story we watched at the beginning of class fits under and why.

• Unusualness- There usually arent pigs just wandering around the highway.
• Timeliness- It happened just this morning. 
• Prominence- It happened on the I-94 which is very known.
• Human Interest- There are pigs on the side of the road.

4. List all the criteria the 2nd story we watched fits under and why.

• Unusualness- Most dogs don't have a brother who helps them see/hear.
• Human Interest- It involves two dogs, one who is blind and one who is deaf and they help each other hear/see.
• Timeliness- It just happened and they are looking for a home for the dogs.

5. List all the criteria the 3rd story we watched fits under and why.

• Timeliness- It happened last night so everyone is talking about it.
• Prominence- It was the MTV movie awards so it was al about celebrities and them recieving awards.
• Unusualness- The awards invilved a bunch of random and funny stuff and they showed part of that in the video.