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What Is News? Galtung and Ruge revisited

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Harcup, Tony, O'Neill, Deirdre·2001·Journalism Studies
DOI 10.1080/14616700118449
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This study aims to shed light on the news selection process by examining the news values currently operational in British newspapers. The study takes as its starting point Galtung and Ruge's widely cited taxonomy of news values established in their 1965 study and puts these criteria to the test in an empirical analysis of news published in three national daily UK newspapers. A review of Galtung and Ruge's original study as well as a wider review of related literature is provided. The findings of the news content analysis are used to evaluate critically Galtung and Ruge's original criteria and to propose a contemporary set of news values.

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Authors
Harcup, T., & O'Neill, D.
Venue
Journalism Studies
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2001-05
Volume
2
Issue
2
Pages
261-280
ISSN
  • 1461-670X (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-9699
DOI
10.1080/14616700118449
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1,364
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Type
journal article
Language
en
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