1. One of the top stories was that of the new pope being elected and that whole process. It has only recently become a major story, but when Pope Francis was finally chosen, the first three stories of the night were all related to his being elected in some way. This is news that may go down in history for a long time, so it's considered really important. Another story that seems to come up again and again is the weather. It isn't the most interesting, but it has an immediate effect on peoples' lives and continues to be news for that reason.
2. Timing: 314111312112 Avg:1.75
Proximity: 122322121231 Avg:1.83
Significance: 233235444423 Avg: 3.25
Oddity: 445554553344 Avg: 4.25
Human Interest: 556443235555 Avg: 4.33
Prominence: 661666666666 Avg: 5.58
3. One thing that I found in all this data that I thought was interesting was the importance score I gave to prominence as a factor of the newsworthiness of the story I chose each week. In the numbers above, you can see that prominence got the highest score every time but one, and that one time it was ranked first. This week, prominence scored very low numbers (though that isn't included in this data) and was significant once again since many of the stories this week were about the new pope - a very prominent person. It seems to be the one factor that has such extremes - either very important or totally inapplicable to the story, which I though was interesting to see. I also thought it was interesting that human interest got such a high score - I think maybe those types of stories usually come on later in the newscast, which is why it seems like a less important factor than it actually is.
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