Quality criteria is only one story, the events that have news value. News value alone, according to Julian Harriss, Kelly Leiter and Stanley Johnson, contains eight elements: conflict, advances, important, close, actual, unique, humane, and influential. That is, before a person reporting an incident, he needs to confirm with these criteria.
Some of the values that underlie news stories reporting the news, are:
1. Immediacy. Meaning associated with the freshness of the reported events. (more…)
