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hard versus soft news  

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  • While the terms hard and soft news are somewhat loaded, they represent the extreme ends of a continuum of standards in news value. Broadly speaking, most news stories can be separated into two types: the immediate and serious, and the less immediate and often less serious. [Source: Encyclopedia of Journalism; Hard versus Soft News]

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