Newsworthiness - The quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in the news. An example of being newsworthy to a local newspaper such as The News for Portsmouth could possibly be
Southseafest, a festival through the streets of Portsmouth. This kind of event would not gain any recognition from other newspaper which are not local like the BBC as it is not newsworthy to the area.
News Values - News values sometimes known as news criteria determine how much prominence a news story is given not only by a media outlet but also by the attention is receives from the audience. News value also determines where stories in a newspaper would come and how large the article, the more local the story the more of a larger article and closer to the front it would come.
Bias - The definition of the word bias is an unfair act led by prejudice beliefs or to influence favorably to an certain outcome over others. In the world of the media and newspaper related the definition of bias does mean the same, newspapers can be very biased to please audiences, investors, and advertisers. Some newspapers may choose not to right stories to please there readers as they are worried it will offend there audience, for example a local Portsmouth newspaper could choose not to write about Southampton football team doing well as they know this would upset Portsmouth fans from the area, instead they will twist the story to explain how upsetting it was
Portsmouth Football Club lost.
A Local Newspaper - A local newspaper is a newspaper just dedicated to news coverage of events in a local context, this type of newspaper is not aimed at audiences of other localities or nationalities. Stories written in the Petersfield Post newspaper would not be suited for inhabitants of Waterlooville's as although it is close its target audience is just for the locals of Petersfield.
Human Interest - Human interest is used to lure people in to the media as the writers present people and their problems, concerns or achievements in a way that arouses interest of sympathy to readers.
Etho's - This is a Greek word which means the beliefs or ideals that a community believe in, this is much like Ideology. For example The News would write about
The Navy as this is what the newspaper believes in, where as this kind of story would not be found in Plymouth.
The 'Inverted Triangle' - The 'Inverted Triangle' is the structure or model commonly used in articles. It means the most important information from the story will be located at the top of the article and the least heaviest or least important at the bottom. This is done for a few different reasons one mainly being because the first few paragraphs are used to hook the reader.
