1) What is News?

 Anna McGough

Professor Reppert

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What is News?



    What exactly is news? News can be a lot of different things to different people. The Webster dictionary defines news as “a report of recent events” and “previously unknown information.” This definition alone covers many different areas of what constitutes as news. News isn’t just what you read in the news paper or see on a news tv station. 


    Growing up, the news stations were not interesting to me and I did not find them important. Any news I needed to get, I got from my parents or teachers in school. Back then, news to me would be something about a new toy or game coming out. Nowadays news to me can be just about anything. Something that is actually on the News can be news to me as well as something I see on Instagram or Facebook. On Facebook, people post about what is going on in their lives like getting engaged, married, pregnant, or someone dying. Those are new and shocking new information to me and would constitute as news. News to me would also be if a friend were to tell me some shocking news about someone. One may say that is gossip but really it’s just local news. 


    With these examples of news, it is obvious that the definition of news all depends on the person receiving the information. Something that you may think is news may not be news to me. News, in the literal sense, is just new information received by a person but news, in a journalistic sense, is determined by each person. 

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