Answers: What news values did you find?
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Below are some suggestions of news values present in the articles. You may have found others and the list is by no means exhaustive.
Begin to consider your own research: can you make use of any of these values when you communicate?
| Article | News values present |
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| 1. Age of ‘Hobbit’ species revised | Popular culture: Hobbit reference Conflict: Over when extinction happened |
| 2. Where do memories go? Study finds our brains ‘file‘ thoughts of the past that are no longer relevant into a ‘trash folder‘ | Meaningfulness: Reference to people suffering from mental health issues Popular culture: Use of trash folder analogy |
| 3. Cat got your tongue? Study to examine if pets adopt owner’s accent | Clarity: Story has clear and narrow focus
Meaningfulness: Appeals to cat owners’ experience Surprise: Can cats have different accents? |
| 4. Star Wars-style lava planet discovered close to Earth | Popular culture: Star Wars reference Surprise: A planet covered in lava Frequency: New Star Wars film recently released |
| 5. Giant rats race to eliminate landmines from Mozambique | Surprise: Giant rats used to detect mines Conflict: Relationship between humans and animals Negativity: Addresses an important developing world issue |
| 6. How dead pigs can help nail killers | Personalisation: Refers to Cape Town, tailors research to local context Surprise: Unexpected way to study human decomposition Negativity: Deals with murder |
Move to the next lecture to learn about news pegs.
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