What is news: still to be defined.

News Values include:

1) Timeliness: you want to cover an event as soon as it occurs rather than two weeks later. News can become stale, just like potato chips, if you wait to long before digging in.

2) Proximity: this can include an issue that is geographically close to you (in your own backyard) or one that is emotionally close to you. For example, Malaysian students who organize a conference similar to yours to discuss many of the same tribulations teens face.

3) Prominence: is this story important in your community, province, country and \ or the rest of the world. Can you make it so by finding the right angle?

4) Consequence: does it affect your readers or their surrounding communities

5) Human interest: does the story touch you personally is it funny do you identify with the main interview subject (source)