NEWS

WHAT IS NEWS?
An oral or written report of a past,
present, or future event. It should be
factual, truthful, accurate, unbiased, and
interesting.

News is an oral or written report of an

event that happened, is happening, will
happen in the North, East, West, or South
that is of interest to the reader and which
should be reported.
ELEMENTS of
NEWS
 Elements of News
1. Conflict
 This may involve physical or mental conflict – man
vs man, man vs animals, man vs nature, or man vs
himself.

2. Immediacy or timeless
 It emphasizes the newest angle of the story.

3. Proximity or nearness
 Refers to geographical nearness as well as to
nearness of kinship or interest.
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4. Prominence
 Some people are more prominent than others by
reasons of wealth, social position or achievements.
This may also refer to place or things.

5. Significance
 Whatever is significant to the life of an individual is
interesting to him.

6. Names
 Important names make important news.
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7. Drama
 This adds color to the story. Anything that moves a
reader to tears or to laughter is good news.

8. Oddity or unusualness
 This refers to strange or unnatural events, objects,
persons, and places.

9. Romance and adventure

 Romance may be experienced with other things.
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10. Sex
 Since the dawn of history, sex has always interested man.
Stories of sex are usually related to stories of romance,
marriage, divorce and the varied activities of men and
women.

11. Progress
 The onward and forward march of civilization on the
progress of a country is chronicled step by step in the
newspaper. The trend today is towards development
communication. Reports on the significant changes in the
established order and on scientific achievements are in
order.
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12. Animals
Stories of animals, especially those with talents are
good in reading matter because of their human interest
value.
13. Number
Sweepstakes numbers, vital statics, election results,
scores in games, casualties, fatalities, price of goods
and ages of women make good news.

14. Emotion
The various responses such as innate desire for food,
clothing, shelter; the universal interest in children,
animals, future, and the natural feeling of love, sympathy
and generosity, of fear, hatred and jealousy.
TYPES of
NEWS
STORIES
1. Scope or Origin
a. Local News – report of events that take
place within the immediate locality.

b. National News – news that takes place

within the country.

c. Foreign news – news that takes place

outside the country.

d. Dateline News – news preceded by the date

of place and origin or place where it was
written or filed.
 2. Chronology or Sequence
a. Advance or Anticipated (dope or prognostication)
→ news published before its occurrence.
b. Spot news (reporter an eyewitness of the event)
→ news that is gathered and reported on the spot.
It deals with unscheduled information demanding
immediate publication.
c. Coverage news (beat)
→ news written from a given beat. Both spot news
and coverage news are good examples of first-
hand reporting.
d. Follow-up news
→ a sequel to a previous story. Having a new trend
of its own, it is a 2nd, 3rd, or subsequent chapter of a
serial.
 3. Treatment
a. Fact story (plain exposition)
→ this is a plain exposition setting forth a single
situation or a series of closely related facts that
inform.

b. Action story (narrative of actions)

→ this involve not mere simple facts but also a
dramatic events, descriptions of persons and events,
perhaps testimony of witnesses, as well as
explanatory data.

c. Speech or quote story

→ a news story usually written from a public address,
talks and speeches.
 4. Content
a. Routine story
→ celebrations, enrollment, graduation, election
stories reported year in and year out.
b. Police reports
→ accident, fire, calamity, crime stories, etc.
c. Science news

d. Development communication

e. Sports news
 5. Structure
a. Straight news
→ news that consists of facts given straight without
embellishment. Its main aim is to inform.
b. News feature
→ it is based on facts, but it entertains more than it
informs. It uses the suspended interest structure
like the narrative; thus it cannot meet the cut-off
test.
b.1 Single-feature structure (one-incident story)
→ the story deals with an isolated event.
b.2 Several-feature structure
  → multiple angled or composite story. Several facts
are included in the lead in their order of importance.
 6. Advanced News

a. Investigative

b. Interpretative

c. Depthnews
 7. Minor
a. News brief
→ a short item of news interest, written like a brief
telegraphic message, giving mainly the result with
details.
b. News bulletin (gist of the news)
→ it is similar to the lead of a straight news story. It
aim is just to give the gist of the news.
c. News-featurette (quirks in the news)
→ this is a short news feature usually used as filler.
d. Sidebar (side by side with the mother story)
e. Flash (boxed message)
→ a bulletin that conveys the first word of an event.