Introduction of news

News comes from plural form of new. The origin of news is 'Nova', which is Latin word. Nova means new thing. So news is new information, message, event and invention.

According to Oxford Learners' Dictionary, news is information about something that has happened recently or reports of recent event hat appear in newspaper or on television or the internet.

Harold Evan has said news is people. We can understand news is concerning matter to people. News is kinds of task in journalism, which fulfill the right of know of people. People always want to know what happening cotemporary society of world is.

Facts in information are backbone of news. So news is closely related with fact. But all fact is not news. So, the combination of fact and journalistic presentation makes news. Journalistic presentation means the writing form of news.

Reporters gather information and they write or type in certain form of news. The editors correct fact and figure. After purifying, media disseminate or broadcast it. So news collection and selection is major task of journalism and it is major content of mass media.

People want to read, view and listen the matter, which is hidden. Reporters search the hidden matter to disclose. So news is the reported matter by reporter. News is not imaginary and fiction type of writing. It means news is nonfiction reporting. News must be factual.

The facts, which is not written in journalistic form is not news. Gossip, rumor, propaganda, literature, history are not news, though they are in written form.

Some definition of news

News is the timely reports of fact or opinion of either internet or importance or both, to considerable of people.

Michael V. Charnlay

When a dog a dog bite a man that is not news; but a man bites a dog, which is news.

John B. Bogan

News is a new piece of information about significant and recent event that affect the audience and is of interest them.

Paul De Maeseneer