What Is News ?

The dictionary definition of news:

• News must be fresh or new or at least have a fresh angle.
• News must be presented as something that is not mundane; must be an event.
• The fresh event must be reported to become news.

News is people

• Mainly celebrities
• Stories often add human interest eg) peoples experiences and comments. This makes it more accessible.

Dog bites man - little interest. Man bites dog - news.

• News is unusual and spontaneous
• Different and unusual stories sell.
• Unique and abnormal.

News is anything that makes the editor saw "wow"

• News is something exciting, shocking and amsing
• Has to be interesting, and exciting to sell to the audience.

News is what someone somewhere wants to suppress all the rest is advertisement.

• Most news is about public figures and celebrities. They contact the news agencies to release a story about themselves, this news is publicity and advertisement.
• The "real" news is what the news have found out on their own, about someone else, which the subject would not want people to know. - Superjunction

Freash events reported

• Up to date
• Current