News Basics
News values, newsroom terms and story types at speed. The journalist's warm-up.
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Which news value means an event happened very recently?
- Timeliness
- Human interest
- Proximity
- Prominence
Which news value means an event happened close to the audience?
- Novelty
- Prominence
- Proximity
- Conflict
Which news value relates to well-known people?
- Proximity
- Consequence
- Timeliness
- Prominence
Which news value refers to how many people an event affects?
- Impact (consequence)
- Proximity
- Novelty
- Human interest
"Man bites dog" is news but "dog bites man" usually is not. This illustrates which news value?
- Proximity
- Timeliness
- Prominence
- Unusualness (novelty)
Stories that touch the emotions, such as a child's recovery, have:
- Prominence
- Human interest
- Proximity only
- Conflict
What are the "5Ws and H" of news?
- Why, whom, whose, which, what and how
- What, where, while, which, who and how much
- Who, what, when, where, why and how
- Who, which, when, whose, why and how
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