Definition of "news" []

• Information about recent events or happenings, especially as reported by newspapers, periodicals, radio, or television. (noun-plural)
• A presentation of such information, as in a newspaper or on a newscast. (noun-plural)
• New information of any kind: The requirement was news to him. (noun-plural)
• Newsworthy material: "a public figure on a scale unimaginable in America; whatever he did was news” ( James Atlas). (noun-plural)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "AIPAC's 'news' Reporting of Interview with ElBaradei. yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'AIPAC\'s \'news\' Reporting of Interview with ElBaradei. '"
• "Then, I shall have news to tell, the _best of news_, I hope; and I won't need to keep anything back."
• "Then, journals were created merely to meet the demand, and news was given as it actually occurred; whereas, now, the competition has produced a change that any one can appreciate, when it is remembered to what a _competition in news_ must infallibly lead."