Gatekeeping

White’s gatekeeping model

Maletzke’s model

Blizzard’s model

Blizzard’s model

Event news? gate the media gate audience

News agency/organs./journalists News values News agenda Broadcast

News values

• Frequency• Threshold• Unambiguity• Meaningfulness (locality)• Consonance• Unexpectedness• Continuity• Composition• Reference to elite nations• Reference to elite persons• Personalisation• Negativity• Immediacy• Actualality