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This article introduces a new framework for the analysis of news discourse to scholars in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and beyond. It emphasises the importance of news values for linguistic analysis and encourages a constructivist approach to their analysis. The new methodological framework is situated within what the authors call a 'discursive' approach to news values. From this perspective, news values are seen as values that exist in and are constructed through discourse, and the primary research interest is in how texts construct newsworthiness through multimodal resources. This article first introduces resources that are used to construe news values in English-language news discourse, before illustrating the framework through two case studies of a 70,000-word corpus of British news discourse. The framework itself is intended for both multimodal discourse analysis and corpus linguistic analysis, although this article focuses more on the integration of corpus linguistic techniques. Thus, the discursive approach ties in well with two recent trends in CDA-towards multimodal and towards corpus-assisted discourse analysis. More specifically, the case studies show that corpus linguistic techniques can identify conventionalised discursive devices that are repeatedly used in news discourse to construct and perpetuate an ideology of newsworthiness. They further show that such techniques can provide a useful indication of the discursive construction of newsworthiness around a specific topic, event or news actor. The article concludes with an outline of further applications of the framework for (critical) linguistic analyses of news discourse.

The heuristic value of 'shunting' is well established in Systemic Functional Linguistics. This has typically taken the form of shunting along the cline of stratification: that is, between strata of the linguistic model-from lexicogrammar to semantics to context, or viceversa-to achieve what Halliday calls a 'trinocular' perspective (e.g. Halliday and Matthiessen 2004: 31). More recently, with the increasing use of corpora as both test-beds for the theory and as ways of exploring the characteristics of different registers, scholars have become interested in the insights to be gained from shunting along the cline of instantiation: that is, from individual texts, to register-based sample corpora, to general corpora representing 'the language as a whole' , and vice versa. In a number of these studies, the corpus is used as a kind of 'echo chamber' , giving an insight into the kind of communicative environment in which individual texts function, and thus providing a picture of the discourse background against which linguistic choices in those texts or small groups of texts can be better understood (see e.g. Coffin and O'Halloran 2006; Miller 2006; Thompson 2001). Bednarek's book is perhaps the most systematic and sustained attempt to date to explore the potential of this kind of shunting. Her focus is on 'emotion talk': that is 'all those expressions in the dictionary that denote affect/ emotion' (page 11), whether referring to the emotions of 1 st and 2 nd persons,

The study of news values/factors has a long and rich history in journalism and communications research. Conceptually, they encompass not only the newsworthy aspects of happenings or news actors but also external aspects that impact journalism practice, such as the influence of proprietors or advertisers, meeting deadlines or competition among news providers to get exclusive stories. Some view news values as existing in the actual events and people who are reported on in the news, that is, in events in their material reality (a material perspective). Others conceive news values as existing in the minds of journalists (a cognitive perspective). News values are also constructed in the discourses involved in the production of news (a discursive perspective). The focus in this article is on this third perspective, with the aim of demonstrating what a discursive approach to news values can add to the two other, theoretical and analytical perspectives. The article has an additional focus on the much neglected area of visual analysis and investigates the construction of news values in news photography.

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