2. • What is News Gathering
• News Categories
• News Sources
• News Worthiness
• Covering a News Story
• Information GateKeeping

3. What Is News Gathering ?

4. News gathering is the process of creating a
story, from finding sources and facts to coming
up with a story angle.
Different types of news stories have different
reporting processes

5. NEWS Categories

6. Hard News
 Politics
 Economy
 Foreign Affairs
 Disasters

7. Soft News
 Human Interest
 Entertainment
 Sport

8. Investigative reports
 It gives a significant
information about
matters of public
importance

9. NEWS SOURCES

10.  News Agencies
 Own Correspondents
 Press releases
 Press Conferences
 (PR) Companies
 The Monarchy & Parliament
 Anniversary Stories
 Court cases or Trials
 . Newspapers, Twitter etc

11. News Worthiness

12.  Newsworthiness is the term we use to
describe whether or not a topic is interesting
enough for people to want to know about it.

13.  Impact/Consequence
 Timeliness
 Prominence
 Proximity
 The Novelty/Oddity
 Conflict/Suspense
 Drama
 Human Interest

14. The importance, or consequence of an event
the greater the consequence, and the larger the number of people
for whom an event is important the greater the newsworthiness.

15. The more recent, the more newsworthy. In some
cases, timeliness is relative.

16. Occurrences featuring well-know
individuals or institutions are
newsworthy.

17. Closeness of the occurrence to
the audience may be gauged
either geographically – close
by events,

18. The firsts, and the unusual, or unexpected
attracts attention.

19. Man vs. MachineMan vs. Woman
Nation vs. Nation
Man vs. Nature

20. Stories with mystery,
suspense or heightened
emotion, are
considered to be more
dramatic than stories
that lack this feature.

21.  Those stories that
have more of an
entertainment factor
versus any of the
above - not that some
of the other news
values cannot have an
entertainment value.

22. Covering A News Story

24. News Report
Editing
Story
Boarding
Information
Gathering

25.  Information Gathering
◦ Interviews
◦ Observation
◦ Background research

26.  Story boarding and Scripting

27. Editing

28. Package Delivery to TV stations

30.  Is a process by which information is filtered to
the public by the media
 Or
 The activity of controlling and limiting general
access to something

31.  Few people are shaping
the news stories that are
reported daily to millions
of audience
 Everyone involved in the
creation of TV news acts
as a gatekeeper in some
way

32.  Ideology

33.  Policies

34.  Social values

35.  Personal feelings

36. Any Questions