The Detinition of News
The word “news,” presumably, results from the combination of N (North),
E (East), W (West) and S (South) in which each individual direction indicates the
four comers of the world. More concretely, news is a report of a series of facts,
changes or events happening in a certain area that is presented journalistically and
immediately to inform or interest the wider reader. However, not every event that
takes place each day is news. Only the incident that grasps the public’s attention and
criticism can be news. In addition, the situation that is meaningful to a certain
audience is also considered as news because the definition of news is elusive. News is
“man bites dog” stuff, news is something people have not known or a continuation
of stories they have heard before, and news is what editors and their staff say it is