I found that both national and local news articles most of the time contain the 5Ws towards the beginning of the article. In addition, in both national and local news, stories have been picked on the basic of news values.
Below is a local and national news article with the 5Ws pointed out.
The dominant news values for national news are:
Familiarity
Amplitude
Surprise
Conflict
Negativity
Elite people
Immediacy
The dominant news values for local news are:
Familiarity
Amplitude
Surprise
Continuity
Negativity
Scandal
- Both national and local news articles share the dominant news values of familiarity, amplitude, surprise and negativity.
- Although familiarity is also a dominant news value for national news, familiarity is even more dominant in local news as it is present in every local news article. Amplitude is dominant for both national and local news but it's more common for national news.
- Familiarity is the number one news value for local news.
- In local news, if amplitude is a present news value it's because the story effects many people in the community, but if amplitude if present in a national news article it's because it may effect people around the country.
- I didn't find that the news value of personalisation was dominant in either, but it was definitely seen more in the local articles because they focus on a smaller community. In a smaller community, the readers are more likely to be personally connected to what the article is about.
- Negativity was equally present in both national and local news as unfortunately the majority of news reported seems to be bad news.
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