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Study Guide for Test 1
Michael Greenberg
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Lecture: What is News and Who Decides?
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• The ten universal news drivers areimportance, prominence, conict,change, proximity, timeliness,
magnitude, relevance, unusualness,and human interest.
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mportance
• !f great interest to the public, thepublic needs to "now. #or example,news of a ma$or hurricane
approaching the east coast would bevery important to many people.
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%rominence
• &elebrity news. #or example, 'indsay'ohan(s mother being arrested for)*.
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&onict
• )isagreements between two parties,such as the government shutdown orwars.
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&hange
• Something that will alter our day today lives, for example, !bama(s newhealthcare plan
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%roximity
• &loseness to where you live. #orexample, the recent Stony +roo"robberies would be events that are in
great proximity to all of us.
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Timeliness
• stories that $ust happened or arerelatively new are of great interest tothe public. #or example, seeing a
brea"ing news headline on thetelevision about a shooting that $usttoo" place is news that is very timely.
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Magnitude
• ews that will greatly a-ect a largeuantity of people. #or example, thegovernment shutdown will a-ect
almost every /merican citi0en.
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elevance
• ews that is of importance orsigni2cance to a group of people. #orinstance, news about a new faculty
member at Stony +roo" would not beparticularly relevant to people livingin /ri0ona.
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3nusualness
• Stories that do not appear in thenews every day are unusual. #orexample, the government shutdown
was unusual, as the governmentwent 14 years without a shutdown.
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5uman nterest
• Stories that will be of particularinterest to people, thus grabbingtheir attention. Most news stories 2t
under this category. !n a test, it isbetter to select one of the other 6news drivers to use when describing
an event.
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'ecture7 8now 9our
eighborhood
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Main dea
• The ma$or concept of this lecture wasthe :;/< method of identifyingwhether or not something is news.
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;eri2cation
• n order for something to be news, itmust be veri2ed or veri2able. #orexample, news stories must provide
detail on how they obtained theirinformation and how they can proveto the public that it is correct.
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ndependence
• The source of a news story must beindependent from the actual story.#or example, Steve =obs reporting on
the bene2ts of owning an i%ad wouldnot be news because he invented thei%ad. ather, this would be
advertisement.
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/ccountability
• Stories are much more li"ely to be news ifthey come from a highly regarded andaccountable source. 'i"ewise, the source
must provide a way for people to contactthem and hold them responsible for incorrectreporting. #or example, the ew 9or" Timesis a highly respected and regarded news
source. t provides contact information for allof its authors and its headuarters. They areaccountable for all of their news.
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Summary
• +y applying the :;/< method to determinewhether or not something is news, we areable to distinguish news from other forms ofinformation. 'i"ewise, $ournalists who followthe ;/ method when creating their storieshelp to ensure that the truth is reported to thepublic.
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*hen the truth is reported to the public, thepublic has the power to absorb theinformation and determine for themselveswhat they want to believe.