Abstract
Newsworthiness can be studied from different perspectives. Firstly, news values can be seen as cognitive ‘cues’ on the basis of which journalists and audiences can assess the newsworthiness of an event or item. Secondly, news values can also be considered as ‘angles’ through which journalists can tell and sell news stories to the audience. Thirdly, news values can be defined as ‘criteria’ used by journalistic gatekeepers to identify and select the news. Drawing on insights from these three approaches, this chapter reflects on how news value research can evolve in a digital and social media context. It is argued that future research should focus on how audience engagement with news affects both human and algorithmic decisions about the newsworthiness of a particular event or story.
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Paulussen, S., Van Aelst, P. (2021). News Values in Audience-Oriented Journalism: Criteria, Angles, and Cues of Newsworthiness in the (Digital) Media Context. In: Temmerman, M., Mast, J. (eds) News Values from an Audience Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45046-5_3
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