Twenty Definitions Of News.



 1. “News is a report of what a news organization has recently learned about matters of some significance or interest to the specific community that news organization serves” (Fuller, 1996).

2. News is what people need and want to know (Mayeux, 1986). 
3. News is a form of communication that informs the public of current events, issues, and trends in society (Croteau & Hoynes, 2014).
4. “News is a cultural production that transforms events and issues into symbols and narratives that reflect and shape social meaning” (Fishman, 1980).
5. “News is a product of a news organization, conveying information to an audience about recent events, developments, and issues” (Galtung & Ruge, 1965).
6. News is what is reported by the media as news (Kieran, 1997).
7. “News is a social construction that provides a mediated reality of events and issues that are selected, framed, and presented by news media professionals.” (McQuail, 2010).
8. “News is a means of communication that provides citizens with information and knowledge necessary for their democratic participation and decision-making.” (Lippmann, 1922).
9. “News is a mode of public communication that represents a specific, observable form of discourse about the world.” (Schudson, 2011).
10. “News is a genre of journalism that reports on events and issues of public interest, emphasizing the timely and relevant aspects of those events and issues.” (Tuchmang, 1978).
11. “News is a process of selecting, processing, and disseminating information about events, issues, and people that are considered newsworthy by journalists.” (Zelizer, 1993).
12. “News is a medium through which individuals and societies create, maintain, and share a sense of public knowledge and common understanding.” (Zelizer & Allan, 2011).
13. “News is an account of current events presented in a medium to a public audience.” (Bell, 1991).
14. “News is what is in the news” (Sigal, 1973).
15. “News is not what happened but what somebody says happened or will happen” (Sigal 1986).
16. “News is not the event but is the report of the event” (Schramm, 1949).
17. News is a record and a product of social reality (Tuchmang, 1978).
18. News is information which is transmitted from the source to recipients by journalists who are both – employees of bureaucratic, commercial organizations and also members of a professional group (Gans, 1979). 
19. News is the end product of a reporter’s daily life experiences (Iggers, 1998).
20. News is an ideological construction of reality (Burton, 2000). 

 

 

 

 

References 

Bell, A. (1991). The Language of News Media. Blackwell.

Burton, G. (2000). Talking television. The introduction to the study of television. p. 125

Croteau, D., & Hoynes, W. (2014). Media/Society: Industries, Images, and Audiences (5th ed.). 

Sage Publications.

Fishman, M. (1980). Manufacturing the News. Austin. TheUniversity of Texas Press.

Fuller, J. (1996). News Values. Ideas for Information Age, p. 6.  

Galtung, J., & Ruge, M. H. (1965). The Structure of Foreign News. Journal of Peace Research, 

2(1), 64-91.

Gans, H.J. (1979). Deciding What’s News: A study of CBS evening news, NBC nightly news. 

News: A Reader, p237

Iggers, J. (1998). Good news, bad news: Journalism Ethics and the Public Interest. Boulder Colo,

p. 111–113.

Kieran, M. (1997). Media Ethics. A Philosophical Approach.Westport, CT.

Lippmann, W. (1922). Public Opinion. Harcourt, Brace and Company.

Mayeux, P. E. (1996). Writing & reporting, Madison Broadcast news p. 4.

McQuail, D. (2010). McQuail’s Mass Communication Theory(6th ed.). Los Angeles: Sage 

Publications.

Schudson, M. (2011). The Sociology of News (2nd ed.). W.W. Norton & Company.

Sigal, L.V. (1973). Reporters and Officials: The Organization and Politics of News making.

Mass.  

Sigal, L.V. (1986). Sources Make the News, in Reading the News, ed. R.K. Manoff, M. 

Schudson. p. 25 

Schramm, W. (1949). The Nature of News, Journalism Quarterly, 26, p. 259.

Tuchman, G. (1978). Making News: A Study in the Construction of Reality.  The Free 

Press.

Zelizer, B., & Allan, S. (2011). Journalism After September 11. New York: Routledge.

Zelizer, B. (1993). Journalists as Interpretive Communities. Critical Studies in Mass 

Communication, 10(2), 219-237.

 

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Abraham said…
Information concerning current occurrences is called news. Word-of-mouth, printing, postal services, radio, electronic communication, or the testimonies of observers and witnesses to the events may all be used to convey this.
28 March 2024 at 12:08
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