News Values in the 21st Century Digital Journalism
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This conceptual paper reviews and analyzes academic studies of “news values” in order to examine its practical meanings and journalistic usages in the digital age. It explores the extent to which their definitional and rational operations evolves over time. The study shows that, firstly, the rational use of news values in digital journalism overlaps with the idea previously identified by former scholars. The main academic discussions recently emphasized on digital-user influences and the transformative characteristics of digital media. In order to define news values in digital age, one should consider procedures of news gathering, and news quality both contents and photos, as well as the use of contemporary media platforms to add value to news story. Secondly, digital journalism scholar argues that newsmen and organizations in their day-to-day works, usually consider news values in cooperating with news productions’ technique, in order to cooperation with news system and to further the relevant information which should be gathered and investigated. Hence, the news evaluation and news values are seen as a driven force in producing news nowadays, and influencing the process of news selection, and work production. However, the emerging digital contexts, especially participatory journalism, and social, political and cultural influences have played crucial roles in news media’s decision making in increasingly considering what newsworthiness are. The definition of news value thus can no longer be static but rather dynamic. The decision can be made and remade upon news development in relation to the participation of the audience. News makers should take the most of this context to add values to news story in relation to expand audience reach and to improve their journalism skills in the processes.
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