News value
News value is the set of criteria — timeliness, proximity, impact — by which editors judge what to report.
At a glance
Key signals
0% cross fields · reaches 0 more
- Journalism
- Media Studies
- Explanation
- Examples
- Misconception
- Sourced relations
- Attribution
Dependencies
What this concept builds on and what it makes possible — derived from the atlas’s dependency, causal and structural relations, not from every related edge.
System context
News valueis part ofJournalismEstablished
News value guides journalism.
Mechanism: Editors select stories by their news value, so it is built into the practice of journalism.
Structural role & consequence
Interpreted from the current atlas graph — what the connections mean, not just how many there are.
Currently dark in the atlas: no key date stored · 3 of 3 of its relations lack claim-level evidence.
atlas representation · Describes the current Thinking OS representation, not the state of the world.
Structural neighbourhood: 3 → 5 → 14 concepts reachable within 3 hops.
structural · Structural reach — being reachable is not the same as being understood.
All 3 of its relationships stay within its own discipline — a field-specific concept in the current atlas.
structural · Structural graph analysis — not a claim of importance, causation or history.
cross-field
3 within-field, 0 cross-field
Strengths & constraints
Constraints
- Evidence coverage currently thin in the atlas — few of its relationships carry claim-level evidence. atlas representation
- No dated history stored — the atlas records no key date for this concept. atlas representation
Conditions
- Read structurally — most of its relationships carry no external evidence yet, so claims here are graph-derived. structural
Seen through each discipline
How this concept sits in each of its fields — derived from its real connections in the graph, not asserted.
Through this lens it connects to Gatekeeping, Journalism and Agenda-Setting.
Through this lens it connects to Journalism.
Related ideas to explore
Concepts that look related but are not yet connected here — candidates for a connection to reason about, not established links.
- Connects 3 other ideas across 2 disciplines.
- Most of its connections are of the “Cause & effect” kind.
Derived from the graph’s real structure — observations, not a score.
Sources
- Speciesist Journalism: News Media Coverage on Farmed Animals and Care as a News Value (2025) verified
- Regional news audiences’ value perception of local news (2021) verified
- What is News? (2016) verified
- Protecting the democratic value of news (2012) verified