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News Values and the G20

Jim Riley

6th April 2009

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Go for the Sensational Peter Wilby in The Guardian today, has a nice little observation on news values.

Wilby observes that that for journalists, scare stories about the G20 ‘riots’ were a win-win. If terrible things happened, they were ahead of the story. If not, they could pronounce revolution a flop and celebrate the heroism of the boys in blue.

That says a lot about news values and the way that news is in fact produced, rather than being simply a factual record of what happens.

What other news values shape the way the news is produced?

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Jim Riley

Jim co-founded tutor2u alongside his twin brother Geoff! Jim is a well-known Business writer and presenter as well as being one of the UK's leading educational technology entrepreneurs.

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