JOUR 625 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: News Values
6 Aug 2020
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Orthodox news values: the five danish news criteria. The five news criteria are produced in different readers and taught at schools of journalism/discussed in professional magazines. Other countries also have different institutionalized news criteria that is created in various ways. Denmark has five criteria that acts as the backbone of journalism in their country. The criteria has been develop over years of a relationship between media, sources, public and the audience. This criteria expresses the editorial idea of what gains the audiences interest and what sells the story. These types of criteria show what makes a story relevant to someone else and more relevant than another story. Timeliness is the current affairs going on and new information. The closer to a deadline determines the difference from print to electronic media publishing. Relevance is the criteria that described readers in terms of how they are perceived as important to the public in full or to certain audience members of media.
