Definition[]
News is
| “ | truthful, comprehensive, and intelligent account[s] of the day’s events in a context which gives them meaning.[1] | ” |
Overview[]
"News may be thought of as comprising information, such as stock prices; reporting, where information and/ or observations are brought together into a news item; and analysis, including all manner of commentary or deliberation on the topics at hand."[2]
References[]
- ↑ The Commission on Freedom of the Press, A Free and Responsible Press — A General Report on Mass Communication: Newspapers, Radio, Motion Pictures, Magazines and Books, 20 (1947).
- ↑ News and Information as Digital Media Come of Age, at 3.