1. Characteristics of News
What is News?

2. Characteristics of News
Timeliness
Recent events are more newsworthy than events further in the past.

3. Characteristics of News
Impact
Events that affect a large number of people are more newsworthy that events that affect a few people.

4. Characteristics of News
Prominence
Events that affect well-known people are more newsworthy than events that affect people who are less well-known.

5. Characteristics of News
Proximity
Events that happen nearby are more newsworthy than events that happen in distant locations.

6. Characteristics of News
Singularity— “Unusualness”
Things that are unusual are newsworthy.

7. Characteristics of News
Conflict
Events which feature conflict are more newsworthy than events that do not.

8. Characteristics of News
Do we have video?
Events that otherwise would not be very newsworthy may be included in coverage if pictures/video are available