Professional Documents
Culture Documents
2022
ELEMENTS OF NEWS AND TYPES OF NEWS STORIES
ELEMENTS:
1. Conflict
2. Significance
3. Proximity
4. Sex
5. Oddity/unusualness
6. Names
7. Prominence
8. Timeliness
9. Romance and adventure
10. Drama
11. Progress
12. Number
13. Animals
14. Emotion
SCOPE/ ORIGIN
1. Local news
2. National news
3. Foreign news
4. Dateline news
STRUCTURE
1. straight news
2. News feature
SEQUENCE/ CHRONOLOGY
1. Spot news
2. Coverage news
3. Follow-up news
4. Advance/ anticipated news
TREATMENT
1. Fact story
2. Interview story
3. Quote story
4. Speech story
5. Action story
CONTENT
1. Police reports
2. Routine story
3. Science news
4. Developmental news
5. Sports news