What makes a new story worthy of coverage? It follows the principles and yardsticks of journalism. Now if you aren't in my journalism class you are probably completely confused. The principles and yardsticks are unofficial regulations known in the journalistic world. The principles are a list of nine determining factors decided upon by an organization known as the Project of Excellence in Journalism that dictate what a story is supposed to do in order for it to be worthy of coverage. The seven yardsticks are put out by gradethenews.org and strive for a similar goal of determining the quality of a given story.
- Truth
- Loyalty
- Verification
- Independence
- Watchdog
- Forum
- Make the Important Interesting
- Inclusivity
- Room for Dissent
- Newswortiness
- Context
- Explanation
- Local Relevance
- Civic Contribution
- Enterprise
- Fairness
In determining whether a story should be reported on or not the easiest thing to critique it upon is newsworthiness. Gradethenews.org dictates that newsworthiness is based on the question does this have a lasting effect (six months or more) on a wide audience (10,000 people)? With a local news outlet you may change that a little, does this affect most of the city for at least three weeks.
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