Year 8

What is news?

Year 8

What is news?

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will learn about the media. We will compare news to other types of information, and investigate the reasons that contribute to an issue or event being seen as newsworthy.

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5 Questions

Q1.
Which definition of the word 'media' was given during the lesson?
A group of people who talk
Correct answer: A method or way of expressing something
Newspapers and books
Television and radio
Q2.
A post on social media would be an example of which of these types of media?
Broadcast media
Correct answer: New media
Print media
Q3.
Which of these answers is not an example of an information neighbourhood?
Advertising
Correct answer: Broadsheet
Propaganda
Publicity
Q4.
Within which information neighbourhood would you usually find a social media post?
Entertainment
News / journalism
Propaganda
Correct answer: Raw information
Q5.
Which of these news values would an article about a new law be least likely to link to?
Impact
Correct answer: Negativity
Proximity
Timeliness