News Values for Sky News

Negativity

Bad news - involving death, tragedy, natural disasters or political upheaval - is rated above 'positive' stories (royal weddings etc.)

The Three dead after Migrant Boat run aground fits many of the news values but particularly negativity. Any major transport disaster that causes death of people is likely to become a huge news story. This is because it contains death, tragedy, dramatic images and also creates questions for the audience in terms of what happened and how was this accident caused.

Closeness to home
Audiences relate more to stories that are close to their home, or involve people from their country. 

This is related to closeness to home because it happened in London and this also makes this story national. This is because it contains Ed Miliband from the Labour Party that is in Uk.This is also important because it is to do with the 2015 elections that happened not long ago.

Immediacy

How recently did it happen? TV news is very competitive about breaking news – although it is now beaten by social media.

The 7/7 incident shows the value Immediacy. They had to change the text on screen after the police had gotten the idea of what had caused the explosion wrong. So this shows the emergency to show this kind of news to the public before the full facts were confirmed by the officials.

Simplicity

Simple stories are preferred by TV news.  Palestine is complicated, a plane crash is easy to follow.

This story is very simple to put to the news.It will attract high viewing figures and can make an exclusive. The only way a full report can be give is that it has to be shown on TV news. Any incident that involves a crash with hundreds of people dying is easy to put on the news

Uniqueness

‘Dog bites man’ is not news. ‘Man bites dog’ is. Unusual stories make it into the news – especially if there is good video to go with it.

The Baltimore Mum disciplines Son for taking part in the Riots fits many of the news values but particularly Uniqueness. Any story that is unusual and has a good video with it ,is likely to become a huge news story. This is because people have not seen a story like that before and it will make the audience ask questions about the woman and why she did it.There is also an interview with the mother.

Elite nations or people

Stories that focus on important countries or people are likely to make the news. Obama and USA = news, Outer Mongolia not so much.

This is an important country because other countries are trying to aid it because of the earthquake that took place there not long ago. Also this is important well as negative news because a lot of people are injured and some are even dead.