National News on Sport

The first story I am going to look at is a sports story about the injury to Tottenham Goalkeeper, Hugo Lloris in a game against Everton at the weekend.

The story contains The Five Ws in the opening paragraphs:

• Who- Hugo Lloris the Spurs goalie 
• What- Sustained a critical head injury 
• Where- Goodison Park, Everton 
• When- Sunday 3rd November 
• Why- In a clash with Everton forward, Lukaku 

A closer look at the story shows that it contains the following News Values: 

Sport story

• Immediacy; the story based on a recent football match 
• Familiarity; the story is culturally and geographically familiar as it is two popular national football clubs playing against each other in this country
• Conflict; Tottenham medical team wanted the Goalie to come off but he wanted to continue. Conflict between medical staff and club. 
• Surprise; Tottenham allowed him to continue playing regardless to concerning injury
• Elite people; refers to famous premiership footballers, Lloris and Lukaku
• Negativity; the story strongly criticises the football club