The Effect of News Value on Issue Selection in Social Media

Abstract

This research is study the news value use as criteria in selecting the news, information validation, and type of information usage from social media from perspective of journalists and journalism scholars. This study is qualitative research by using in-depth interviews of 6 people from purposive sampling.
From perspective of journalists, it was found that the effect of news value on issue selection in social media is 1) audience interest, 2) proximity, 3) effect, 4) conflict, and 5) uniqueness. However, scholars revealed that should be emphasized the effect of news, and the usefulness in social and individual level.
To validate the information from perspective of journalists and journalism scholars be of the same opinion in two manners: 1) the origin of the post, 2) other trustworthy sources by journalists check from the comments and scholars propose to get information from social media by Crowdsourcing
On type of information usage from social media, journalists thought that three manners: 1) completed news incident, 2) primary news source to develop into a deeper edge, and 3) news component. However, the scholars thought that should be primary news source for a deeper edge, and news component to reflect and resolve the problem.
The result of research will lead to improve the quality of news content of television program in digital era.