Thursday, April 17, 2014

7 News Values

Timeliness
I chose this article for timeliness because it is new, fresh information that the public is just finding out. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/04/us/fort-hood-shooting.html?ref=us
                                         
Proximity
I chose this article because it happened in our city, and more specifically it happened here at Akins. The storm was cray cray yesterday

Prominence
This article is relevant to prominence because today marks the one year anniversary of the Boston Marathon Bombing which was such a big story and tragedy

Impact
This article's topic affects the whole world, it has an "impact" 

Conflict
I chose this article because there are two opposing forces involved
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/world/europe/ukraine-diplomacy.html?ref=world&_r=0

Human Interest
Novelty