Gate keeping - There are many processes a newspaper must go through before it can be sold in a newsagent and lots of people are involved in making just one article. The process that makes this article is called 'Gate keeping'.

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There are many processes a newspaper must go through before it can be sold in a newsagent and lots of people are involved in making just one article. The process that makes this article is called ‘Gate keeping’.

To begin with, the news is first caught hold of by the news agencies, who then sell the stories to the news media.

The copy taster then makes a quick selection of stories they consider news worthy to the paper they are working for, although they only dismiss the obvious non – news worthy stories as they don’t hold a great deal of responsibility. What they consider suitable they send off to the news editor.

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It is the news editor’s job to make a definitive judgment if which stories will be followed up and which ones will not. They decide what angle to take on the story according to what perceptions they want to portray to the reader. They then select, in their own opinion, reporters and photographers they consider suitable to create the story. However, if the story took place in another county, a foreign news editor will be assigned to this job instead.

Photographers and reporters work on the same time scale. They decide how to display the information, and it is their ...

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