One of the most recent negative news stories is that of the Charlie Hebdo killings. According to Wikipedia, this is what happened during this event: 'On the morning of 7 January 2015, at about 11:30 local time, two Islamist terrorist brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the offices of the satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Armed with assault rifles and other weapons, they killed 11 people and injured 11 others in the building, and shouted "Allahu Akbar" (Arabic for "God is [the] greatest"). After leaving, they killed a French National Police officer outside the buiilding. The gunmen identified themselves as belonging to Al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen, who took responsibility for the attack. Several related attacksfollowed in the Île-de-France region, where a further 5 were killed and 11 wounded'.
Watch this clip from BBC World news clip reporting on the hostage / shootings in Paris. List
the key
examples of news values that coverage of
this story will provide for audiences.
This was a huge story that covered a number of different news values.
–Immediacy: This was an event that happened very recently (16th January 2015)
–Familiarity: Following the September 11th and 7/7 terrorist attacks, there is an ongoing threat of terrorism which people of Britain understand and can relate
to
–Amplitude: This was a massive event taking place over a long duration
–Surprise: Although audiences are aware of the overall terrorist threat, this was something
which shocked and surprised people owing to its severity
–Continuity: There is an ongoing threat of terrorism
–Personalisation: This is a
human interest story and deemed to be 'hard' news
–Negativity: This was an example of a hard news story and a very negative one, there were journalists killed - twelve people in total
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