News Values

Gaultung and Ruge;

In 1965 some media researchers analysed international news stories to find out what kind of stories came top of the news 'agenda' worldwide. Their findings led them to creating a list of 'news values' - A kind of scoring system. A story that scores highly on each news value is very likely to make the front page, or the start of a TV news bulletin. 

Gate keeping- Editing and filtering process which allows some information to pass through to the audience and some to remain barred.