Definition of "newsbreak" []

• An urgent or immediate item of news. (noun)
• The act or an instance of interrupting previously scheduled radio or television programming in order to report a newsworthy event or story. (noun)

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.

• "It is just like … we-interrupt-this-program-for-important-announcement kind of newsbreak when I kept on seeing Bush's face on the TV screen when the show scheduled for the time slot is that of"
• "Could this could be exactly the kind of big, important newsbreak that CNN has been looking for to turn things around?"
• "A special newsbreak was interrupting the broadcast."