News
Meaning and definitions

What is news?
News is a product gathered, processed, packaged and sold by newspapers, news services, news magazines and other periodicals and by radio, television, and cable stations and networks. But news is also whatever people think it is; reporter, editor or reader. It is anything that attracts and holds the interest of readers, viewers or listeners.

Definitions
Stanley Walker (New York Herald-Tribune): News is more unpredictable than the winds. Sometimes it is the repetition with new characters of tales as old as the pyramids; it may be almost outside the common experience. Based on opinion, much news is routine, repetitious, at the same time interesting and exciting to some people. For example birth and deaths.
Definition 2
Joseph Pulitzer of St. Louis Post-Dispatch: stories that were original, distinct, romantic, thrilling, unique, curious, quaint, humourous, odd and apt-to-be talked about.

Charles Dana (editor of New York Sun): anything that will make people talk.

Recent definitions
news is a chronicle of conflict and change.

Editors of today: define news is terms of what the readers want to know- give readers what they ask for.

News as information readers ought to have, what they need to know to get along in this complicated world.

News is information that helps people solve their problems intelligently.
News is what a well-trained editor decides to put in his paper.