In another word news is described events from four directions North, East, West and South mean that news is infromation recived from all directions. But any events or any events does not make news. The biggest news will
be given first in the bulletin or on page one of the paper, in detail, lesser
news will be given in less detail later in the bulletin or an inside page; and
the rubbish will have been thrown away.It is not easy to define the news though it has been defined in various ways. Many exports has defined news some of them are:
- News is anything you did not know yesterday. - Tuner Catlege
- News is anything that will make people talk. - Charles A. Dana
- When a dog bites a man, that is not news, but when a man bites a dog, that is news. - Charles A. Dana
- News is people. - Harold Evans
- News is news when it is new. - M. V. Kamath
- News is a new piece of information about a significant and recant event that affects the listeners and is of interest them. - Paul De Maeseneer
- The rise and falls of governments, war, stories of peaceful international relations, the doings and movements and sayings of famous people, man-made disasters - those are essentially what news is. - Reauter(News agency)
- News may be defined aw an accurate, unbiased account of the significant fact of a timely happening that is of interest to the readers of the newspapers that prints the account. - William S. Mollsby
- News is a compilation of facts and events of current interest of importance to the readers of the newspaper printing it. - Neil Mac Neil
- News is usually stimulating information from which the ordinary human being derives satisfaction or stimulation. - Prof. Chilton Brush
- It is nearly always a story about people rather than things. - Tomson Fundation
- News is a chronicle of conflict and change. - John Chancellor
- News is what occurs, people think and do. - James Begins
- News is surprise, an unexpected happening. - Lord Northcliffe
In order to present a news story s reporter must have answer of the following questions.
- What happened?
- Who where involved?
- When it happened?
- Where it happened?
- Why it happened?
- How it happened?
Information regarding these fine WS and one H is necessary to satisfy the curiosity about an event. Among these, newspapers concentrate mainly on what, who, when and where aspects of news while magazines prefer why and how aspects of news.
News is a 'product' too. As a product, it is gathered, processed, packaged and sold by newspapers, news agencies, radio, TV, e-papers etc. So another way to learn about news is to study newspaper, listen radio, watch TV or suefing the net to know what they present as news.
News at present
A significant changes
can be seen in the notion of news over the course of time. When press was
started in a nation there was only few media to provide information to the
people. There used to be a censorship on media which News is to be published or
not. There used to be few tools and technologies to collect news or
information.
At present there are many publication to publish news. There
is no censorship on media. There are various kind of media like print, audio
and visual. Now a day's media is considered as fourth state of government. Previously
a journalist cannot earn much by selling news but now a day's journalist can
sell news to any media. We can get news frequently whereas there used to be
problem to collect news. The technologies have helped a lot for the change in
the notion of news.
-Sajan Kumar Sunuwar
BMS 1st year 1st sem
Kathmandu University School of Arts
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