Click on the story below, about men from Derby being charged with the murder of a man in Kilburn, which appeared in the East Midlands regional section of BBC News online.
The news values contained within this story include:
Continuity, as this is part of an ongoing murder investigation (though, this element of the story is 'breaking' and it could be argued that the story incorporates the news value Immediacy). For readers in Derby, this story is geographically close to them and Familiarity is a very important news value for local news (probably the most important news value of all) - most stories reported in local news have taken place close to that regional area (or, at least, involve, people from that area). These kinds of incidents happen quite often, so I would suggest that the news value of Frequency is a determining factor in the story's prominence in local news. Also, as the story involves crimes that may make the readers feel threatened, the news value Impact is part of the story. Conflict and Negativity are most certainly news values as the story involves the murder of one individual by others.
The reporting of both stories is reasonably similar and the fact that one is a national story whilst the other is a local news story, seems to have had little bearing on the ways that the stories are reported - apart from the fact that the local story will be of more interest to readers in the East Midlands area. It appears, then, that crime stories are reported in a similar way regardless of whether the report is from a local or national outlet.
Having noticed that crime stories appear prominently in national and local news, I am going to include a crime story in my bulletin.
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