Abstract
This paper focuses on accidents in the financial information systems which act as in important infrastructure in the information society. We investigate the type of accidents reported in newspapers and the descriptions of reporting them to the public, and discuss issues concerning this reporting. In the present condition analysis, we first extract the factors that influence the selection of news from numerous accidents. Second, we classify the significance of accidents into four levels from the user perspective and analyze the relationship between significance and news characteristics. As a result, we show that there are several differences between significance for users and news characteristics for reporters. We then analyze cases with low news characteristics and high significance, and consider the need for improvement of reporting of these cases from user perspective, and finally summarize several points for improving news reporting.
