We've had a quick look at how to recognise news, the eight news values of impact, conflict, timeliness, proximity, prominence, currency, human interest, and the unusual. One way to get an idea of the news process is to consider the roles played by various people within a news organisation Many people, including Conley have described a newsroom as a factory. The analogy is a good one. Although the content may vary, the product remains constant - it's produced in the same way by the same group of skilled workers day in and day out. Apart from changes in technology, the production of a newspaper has not varied much in the past 50 years.
Experienced journalists say every story has been told many times before.
There's some evidence for this. Each week the national news and current affairs magazine, The Bulletin publishes a page of stories from 100 years ago. Although the names change, the news values and the essential elements of the content are surprisingly familiar. For a diagram of a typical newsroom, often called the editorial hall, refer to The Daily Miracle . This part of a newspaper deals entirely with what's called the editorial pages, that is everything that isn't advertising.