News Values

Write two complete sentences that explain why the article is driven by the news value you chose. 

Include the article’s headline. 

Include the link where you found the article, try to make this a clickable link - to drop in links - in your toolbars above - click the one that says LINK - you will be able to paste in a URL there. You will not be able to do this step if you use the Austin American Statesman, so you will need to include the first paragraph of the story. To do this you will need to double click on the story itself on the page it appears. That will give you a pop-up box of the story. There you can copy and paste the first paragraph. DO NOT PASTE IN THE ENTIRE STORY

Timeliness - Panama Papers
This article was written two days ago about a recent topic. I picked this because it is very new.

The Panama Papers: Here’s What We Know

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/world/panama-papers-explainer.html?_r=0

A group of global news organizations published articles based on a trove of leaked confidential documents from a law firm in Panama, Mossack Fonseca. They exposed how some of the world’s most powerful people were said to have used offshore bank accounts to conceal their wealth or avoid taxes.

Proximity - 

Person of interest identified in death of UT-Austin student

I picked this article becuase it was on the UT campus. This is in Downtown Austin which is very close to South Austin.

Person of interest identified in death of UT-Austin student

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/04/07/ut-austin-campus-on-alert-after-female-student-found-dead-in-creek.html

A man seen pushing a red or pink woman’s bicycle Sunday night at the University of Texas at Austin is the primary person of interest in the hunt for student Haruka Weiser’s killer.

Prominence -

"NASA is Facing a Climate Change Countdown"

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/science/nasa-is-facing-a-climate-change-countdown.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&_r=1

This article fits the value because NASA is a national space exploration agency that works with other international countries. Because of the agency's importance and involvement in the world and in many grand scientific feats, anything having to do with NASA is newsworthy.

"KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — The concrete block perches absurdly atop a piling, elevated about 10 feet above the beach sand. Is it art? A bulky milepost?"

Impact -

Surveillance footage, cab driver offer clues in investigation in Brussels attack

I picked this article because many people are aware of terrorism from ISIS and can be moved emotionally by it. 
Some may even know people who were in Brussels at the time.

Brussels, Belgium (CNN) In grainy images from surveillance footage, a man wearing light-colored clothes and a hat pushes a baggage cart through the airport.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/22/europe/brussels-explosions/

Conflict -

ISIS Abducts Workers From Cement Factory in Syria

I picked this article because it creates a conflict between the world and ISIS. This big of a conflict is important to use in an article.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Islamic State fighters abducted at least 170 workers from a cement factory northeast of the Syrian capital, Damascus, when the militant group attacked the area this week, activists and the Syrian government said on Thursday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/08/world/middleeast/isis-said-to-have-kidnapped-dozens-of-workers-at-syria-cement-factory.html?ref=world&_r=1


Human Interest -

I picked this article because the person in the article went through a physical and emotional struggle. This pulled in readers to see how she would deal with it.

"Redefining Disability"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mallory-weggemann/redefining-disability_b_6175266.html

"Disability. It is an interesting word and one that many of us feel we cannot relate to. For nearly 19 years of my life, I was never classified as someone with a disability, until one day, in literally a split second everything I knew changed and I was now classified as an individual with a physical disability."

Novelty -

I picked this article because this information is one of a kind. The reader has never heard of 61 pairs of twins in a single village.

Ukraine’s ‘Land of the Twins’ – Unique Village Boasts 61 Sets of Twins

Velikaya Kopanya village is better known as Ukraine’s ‘Land of the Twins’ because of its record-breaking 61 pairs of twins among the less than 4,000 inhabitants. The village is soon expected to be included in the Guinness Book of World Records, having already made its way into Ukraine’s record book.

http://www.odditycentral.com/