Saturday, 14 July 2018

What is NEWS?

The news is a piece of information on any event or person. It is an accurate, balanced, brief and fair-minded account of happenings with factual information on names and action in which public has a stake. The news is an update on the happening around us. These are some of the definitions of news.

‘News stands for North, East, West, and South’.
The news is a fact or idea that will interest a large number of audiences.

‘When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news’.
(Charles Anderson Dana, American journalist)

‘News is the immediate, the important, and the things that have an impact on our life’.
(Freda Morris, Courtesy Cohler 1985)

‘News is the first rough draft of the history’.
(Ben Bradlee, American journalist)

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