What is it about?
News values tell us which newsworthy aspects of an event have been emphasised in the reporting of that event. In this paper we introduce a new way of analysing the construction of news values in the words and images that make up news reports. We call this a discursive approach.
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Why is it important?
News values have traditionally been examined in relation to the belief systems held by journalists (studied through ethnographic approaches), or as selection criteria for what makes it into the news. In this paper, we take a new and complementary discursive approach to analysing news values by examining how the words and images used in published news stories have sold a newsworthy event to audiences. We also focus in this paper on the much neglected contribution of news photography to the construction of news values.
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News photography is rarely talked about in relation to news values. In this paper, we specifically talk about how news images contribute to the construction of news values and offer a systematic method for analysing images. In other papers, we have talked about how language constructs news values.
Dr Helen Caple
University of New South Wales
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This page is a summary of: Rethinking news values: What a discursive approach can tell us about the construction of news discourse and news photography, Journalism, February 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1464884914568078.
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