News values
Criteria journalists use to select stories (newsworthiness): conflict, drama, impact, celebrity, negativity, proximity, simplicity; these values make some stories news and others invisible.
Real World
The disappearance of Madeleine McCann in 2007 received years of sustained UK front-page coverage because it combined celebrity-adjacent drama, proximity, and a sympathetic victim — while thousands of missing children from working-class or minority backgrounds went unreported.
Exam Focus
Name Galtung and Ruge as the theorists who identified news values; dropping theorist names signals sociological knowledge to the examiner.
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