What’s on the What Makes News poster
10 entries in 2 groups.
Selection criteria in routine use.
- Raises news value: Timeliness and a clear news peg, Proximity to the audience, Scale…
- Lowers it: Slow, cumulative change, No named victim or protagonist, Complexity that r…
News values describe practice, not merit. The biggest stories are often those that fail every criterion except importance.
Questions about the What Makes News poster
- What’s on the What Makes News poster?
- 10 entries in 2 groups. Selection criteria in routine use. Raises news value: Timeliness and a clear news peg, Proximity to the audience, Scale…; Lowers it: Slow, cumulative change, No named victim or protagonist, Complexity that r…. News values describe practice, not merit. The biggest stories are often those that fail every criterion except importance.
- Who is the What Makes News poster for?
- What Makes News belongs to the Communications & Media section rather than to a school year, because humanities is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning journalism can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the What Makes News poster?
- When pitching, and when asking why an important thing was never covered. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so What Makes News belongs on the wall where that humanities work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with What Makes News?
- Beat Reporting, Corrections and Data Journalism sit alongside What Makes News in the Communications & Media section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Beat ReportingCorrectionsData Journalism
- Is the What Makes News poster free to download and print?
- Yes. What Makes News downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Communications & Media section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the What Makes News poster print at?
- What Makes News is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of What Makes News loses nothing.Printing guide
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