News Values / Newsworthiness Media Studies Lesson

A 1-2 hour lesson based around news values and newsworthiness. Includes:

• A 35-slide PowerPoint presentation
• An accompanying script for the slides
• Printable resources to be used to complete the later task in the lesson

Features an introduction to the concepts of news values, newsworthiness and gatekeeping. Depending on the level of comprehension of your students, you can add additional complexity, particularly in terms of media theory. This lesson is probably best aimed at GCSE/KS4 and A Level/KS5 but could also be tweaked for use in HE/Foundation level.

Has 3 tasks of increasing complexity and requires minimal resources, but what is required is also included and would need to be printed (preferably in colour).

Includes 8 categories of newsworthiness and how they are used to construct a news agenda alongside dozens of examples to spark discussion. This is not the full extent of newsworthy categories but they are designed to cover the most ground with the least categories. Feel free to add and tweak as you need.

Includes an extended, interactive group activity that shows how the news agenda manifests itself through developing stories.