News is the communication of information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third party or mass audience.
One theory is that news was developed as a special use of the plural form of new in the 14th century. In Middle English, the equivalent word was newes, like the French nouvelles and the German neues. A somewhat similar development is found in at least three Slavic languages (Czech, Slovak...
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News is the communication of information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third party or mass audience.
One theory is that news was developed as a special use of the plural form of new in the 14th century. In Middle English, the equivalent word was newes, like the French nouvelles and the German neues. A somewhat similar development is found in at least three Slavic languages (Czech, Slovak and Polish), where there exists a word noviny ("news"), developed from the word nový ("new").
A folk etymology incorrectly suggests that it is an acronym of the cardinal directions: north, east, west, and south.
In its infancy, news gathering was primitive by today's standards. Printed news had to be phoned in to a newsroom or brought there by a reporter, where it was typed and either transmitted over wire services or edited and manually set in type along with other news stories for a specific edition. Today, the term "Breaking News" has...
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