THIS DISSERTATION IS SUBMITTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF GHANA, LEGON IN in part for another degree elsewhere. Table 4: News focus and news prominence Table 3: Most common news topics and news prominence Table 1: Showing a list of news selection factors in selected studies Vhitney, 1987, cited in Cassidy, 2006) which also have the potential of influencing the Ninety-three per cent (93%) of the respondents had received tertiary education while the per cent Figure 2: The prominence of news stories on the front page Table 3: Showing a cross tabulation of the most common news topics and news prominence A cross tabulation of news focus and news prominence showed that about 50 per cent of the lead Figure 3: Focus of the news This table shows the most covered news focus and news prominence, N=202 4.2.4 The most common news type Figure 4: Showing the most common news type matters in and around the country. It is therefore not surprising that The Newspaper concentrated Gans (1979: 35, cited in Alowo, 2010: 52) controversy, especially in politics, attracts the Even though a news item should embody an average of five news values for it to be published on Bar chart 1: Showing the average number of news values in news items the front page, a news item did not have to possess the highest number of news values to become Bar chart 3: Showing the number of news values in other news stories 4.3 Survey And this is likely to limit their decision. or receive information which is only in the interest of the gatekeepers and their organizations. which qualifies most to be the lead news. This topic included judicial proceedings, parliamentary refine and sort news in the way they deem fit. This implies that the public is likely to be fed with or legislative instruments, activities of political parties and corruption. This was followed by health (20%) with respondents arguing that when health problems are highlighted they attract This was confirmed by the content, survey and the interviews conducted for the study. 2. What is the Daily Graphic’s understanding of news values? How would you rate the following 1eWs values according to their importance in the selection of news for the front page? 9. How many years have you worked as a journalist?
