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This article reflects on the decision-making process concerning the content criteria for the inclusion of amateur photographs in the news. The concept of news values gives an insight into this practice. I ask what content criteria amateur photographs convey that news media workers perceive as valuable, and which additional process-related characteristics are important. The findings show that the sourcing of amateur photographs largely follows traditional news values such as unpredictability, amplitude, conflict and negativity. They also reveal the importance of additional factors such as access and proximity. In addition, the article considers the relationship between the idea of high and low newsworthiness and the sourcing of amateur photographs, and shows that they are mainly applied at the 'extreme ends of the news spectrum'. This important insight could be one of the keys to understanding how the professional news media adapt in the face of significant change in the media, and where the professional approach of assigning photographers is still relevant.

This is an intermediate report from a study of foreign news in Swedish media as well as media in a number of other countries. We intend to discuss and test parts of a theoretical model designed to explain the selection of news. For this purpose we have used studies of news content covering the last seven decades. This material includes more than 50,000 news stories in newspapers, on radio and on television that have been manually categorized and coded. In addition, approximately 300,000 news items from different databases have been used (see Appendix).

Der Beitrag ist ein Zwischenbericht zu einer Untersuchung von Auslandsnachrichten in schwedischen Medien und denen einer Reihe anderer Länder. Es sollen Bestandteile eines theoretischen Modells erörtert und getestet werden, das mit dem Ziel entworfen wurde, die Nachrichtenauswahl erklärbar zu machen. Zu diesem Zweck wurden Untersuchungen zum Nachrichteninhalt aus den letzten siebzig Jahren ausgewertet. Das Material umfaßt mehr als 50.000 Einzelnachrichten in Zeitungen, Hörfunk und Fernsehen; diese wurden manuell kategorisiert und kodiert. Zusätzlich wurden nahezu 300.000 Nachrichtensätze aus verschiedenen Datenbasen in die Untersuchung einbezogen. (UNübers.)

This thesis provides an account of key aspects of the "language" and the communicative functionality of Iranian print news journalism with reference to news items published in two of Iran's leading Persian-Farsi language daily newspapers, Kayhan and Etemaad. One-month's worth of police rounds items (crimes, accidents, natural disasters, and strange events) and four days of politics reports were collected. Analyses are provided with respect to three related aspects of these items: how the experiential domain of police rounds is construed in these two newspapers via assessments of "newsworthiness"; how these texts are organised structurally and the typical genres employed in these two journalistic domains; and the evaluative styles and the journalistic voices employed in the political reporting. The results of the analyses of police rounds reports suggest that while there is some overlap in the construal of the Field of police rounds between the newspapers in terms of which police rounds events their editors consider "newsworthy", there are, nevertheless some important differences. The two newspapers appeared to operate under different systems of newsworthiness with regard to the relative weightings given to crime versus misadventure reporting, as well as the amount of coverage afforded local police rounds events as opposed to foreign/international police rounds events. The findings with regard to the structural arrangements and genre status of the texts showed both similarities and differences with what has been observed in English language news journalism and the journalisms of other languages. A significant number of the crime reports were found to incorporate extended chronologically-organised records of events and were found to bear a strong resemblance to "traditional" types of storytelling such as narrative and exemplum. A number of the politics reports were found to operate with a highly impersonalised style, a "journalistic voice" even more constrained evaluatively than the "reporter voice" style which ...

The authors made a content analysis of the United Press TTS service in Indiana, to determine the quantity of news available through it, in comparison with trunk and radio wires. Their answer for Indiana radio newsmen verified the feeling that for full news protection, all three wires are needed.

This article examines the historical contingency of news values as evidenced in journalism historiography and more than a century of journalism reporting and writing textbooks dating to 1894. Textbooks are important distillers and (re)constructors of journalists' conceptions of news and not-news. Findings suggest that although key news values such as timeliness, proximity, prominence, unusualness, conflict, human interest, and impact have been fundamentally stable since the early 1900s, the way those values are applied to reporting depends on the sociocultural context of the era. A key implication is that news values are neither natural nor inevitable, but rather within journalists' power to change.