Monday 25 June 2012

Construction of the News - News Values - Citizen Journalism


The textbook is nice and straightforward about this, pages 149-153 need to be learnt and understood but, in my humble opinion, there’s nothing there that won’t make sense to you.
We should take a closer look at ‘News Values’, specifically the work of  Galtung and Ruge (1965) and  Spencer-Thomas (2008).  Here is a link to S-Thomas’ own website and his info on news values. 

Galtung and Ruge are covered quite comprehensively in textbook pages 152-153.
You need notes and understanding of their work!









We should also take a closer look at Citizen journalism because it is a new development linked to the internet...
Citizen Journalism
What is citizen journalism? (you need to have a short definition of this in your pretty little heads)
Here are some famous examples...
Salam Pax:
1  2
Arab Spring:
1

Is citizen journalism a good idea?

For and against citizen journalism, here  and what is the role and value of citizen journalism?  Here!



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