What are the characteristics of news?

News has the characteristics of openness, authenticity, pertinence, timeliness, accuracy, uniqueness, proximity, openness, extensiveness and variability.

In terms of expression, the elements of news are mainly narrative and attach great importance to authenticity. Six elements of news (that is, narrative elements): time, place, people, cause, process and result of events. That is, five "W" and one "H", that is, Who (who), What (what), When (when), Where (where), Why (why) and How (how). ?

Extended data

1. If the news dissemination mode is simplified, it is the process from sender to receiver. The dissemination of new media news is open, that is to say, this mode of communication may be broken at any time.

Openness contains two meanings: openness of communication and acceptance and openness of information processing right. The interaction of communication subjects and the resulting lack of gatekeepers are the reasons for the formation of open news in new media.

The existence of new media has changed our understanding of the environment. We have seen things invisible to the naked eye, such as personal history broadcast by satellite and bacterial images taken by electron microscope. Mcluhan believes that,

Experience is made up of countless different sensory materials. Perceptual stimuli such as sound, color, shape and light of information media can feel foreign objects through the whole body senses such as vision, hearing, smell, touch, taste and movement.

3. The mass storage of news by new media is not only reflected in the amount of information, but also in how much space or digital capacity is used to express a news event. Unlike newspapers, which only have printed words and pictures, television only has sound and pictures, and the information transmission of new media is integrated.

Weibo news report is a typical example of information dissemination based on Internet technology, which changes the expression of news content from a two-dimensional plane with pictures and texts to a three-dimensional space with audio-visual multimedia equivalence.

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