Rethinking News Values：The Case of Real-Time News of the Apple Daily and the China Times Group
Date Issued
2016
Date
2016
Author(s)
Lee, Chu-Chun
Abstract
Real-time news is an emerging form of news and arousing increasing chaos of media performance in Taiwan. This paper provides an outline of real-time news in Taiwan, what news values it shows and discuss how “news’’ nature changes under the new media age. This paper deals with real time news of the Apple Daily and the China Times Group, using content analysis and depth interviews as method. The content analysis aims to illustrate the outline of real time news by category construction, coding and quantitative analysis. The sample includes a total of 1082 real-time news reports of June 3, 2015. The depth interviews aim to translate the statistical data into practice. The results show that the majority of news item from the Apple Daily is “other”, which was hard to be categorized in traditional definition of news. The main news category of the China Times Group is “economic news” . Otherwise, the Apple Daily and the China Times Group real-time news are highly comparable in news value, with ""interesting"" as the major news value of both of them. Overall, the results reveal that the outlines of real-time news differ by different style of news organization and media characteristics. Both the Apple Daily and the China Times Group agree that click through rate is a non-negligible index of survival in Internet world. Thus, there is no standard to release press besides news reality. In this case, the Apple Daily and the China Times Group still have different news style and apply different strategies to increase click through rate of real-time news; accordingly, they show different outline of real-time news.
Subjects
real time news
new media
news values
Apple Daily
China Times
Type
thesis
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