newsn.
/njuːz/, U.S. /n(j)uz/ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > a new thing or novelty > new things
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Ecclus. xxiv. 35 Þe whiche fulfilleþ as phison wisdam & as tigris in þe daiys of newis [a1425 L.V. new thingis, L. novorum].
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 26768 (MED) Stedfast and stabil Sal scrift be, þat es resonabil, And noght als neus [a1400 Fairf. trewes] þat er tan, Þat ar to dai, to moru ar gan.
1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Aiv Not for a vayne and curious desiere to see newes.
1565 T. Stapleton Fortresse of Faith f. 109v Differences..betwene the auncient faith of England and the vpstert newes of protestants.
a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) 45220 Dreidand sum thing for haistie change and newis.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iv. v. 200 Est natura hominum novitatis avida; mans nature is stil desirous of newes, variety, delights.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iv. v. 200 As a horse in a mill, a dog in a wheele, they run around without alteration or newes.
2. The report or account of recent (esp. important or interesting) events or occurrences, brought or coming to one as new information; new occurrences as a subject of report or talk; tidings.
a. With plural agreement. Now archaic and Indian English.
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society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun]
wordOE
tiding1069
messagec1325
sound1413
news1417
advicec1425
noveltya1450
novelsc1450
newel1484
strangesa1500
nouvellesc1500
uncouthsa1529
occurrent1583
actualité1840
1417 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 55 (MED) The gracious prosperitie..of your renowned person..[is] soe gracious and joyous newes..to the principall comforte and especiall consolation of us and all your faythfull subjectes.
1489 King Henry VII in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 657 This day aftre High Masse comyth vnto vs from oute of Bretayne..oon of oure pursiuantes, that ratifieth the newes of the seid Lord Malpertuis, which ben these.
c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) clxxix I bring The newis glad.
?c1500 Conversion of St. Paul (Digby) 431 Yet of late I haue hard of no newys.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccccl. 794 He was right pensyue and sore troubled with those newes.
1581 B. Rich Farewell Militarie Profession sig. H.jv These newes were sodainly spred throughout the Citie of Cherona.
1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 412 Calling his Lords..about him, to whom hee deliuered these glad newes.
1685 J. Dryden Threnodia Augustalis i. 2 Th amazing News of Charles at once were spread.
1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 17 June (1965) I. 367 The great Gulph between You and Me cools all News that come hither.
1776 J. Jekyll Corr. (1894) 64 The ill news of your health are still worse than my late suspense.
1820 P. B. Shelley Let. 30 July (1964) II. 223 There are bad news from Palermo.
1846 W. M. Thackeray Let. 6 Mar. (1945) II. 230 There are never any news.
1922 E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros xxix. 370 What makest thou of these news, my lord?
1979 P. Nihalani et al. Indian & Brit. Eng. i. 127 My news are good.
b. With singular agreement. Now esp. such information as published or broadcast.
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society > communication > information > [noun] > new
news1532
noos1862
hap1957
update1967
1532 T. Clifford in R. W. Hoyle Clifford Lett. (1992) 78 My verray goode lorde, pleasith it the same for news occurraunt in theis partes sence my lait lettres hir is noon.
?1566 W. P. tr. C. S. Curio Pasquine in Traunce 36 I hearde speak of it, when ye newes therof was brought to Pope Iulie the seconde.
1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes i. v. 48 in Wks. II When Newes is printed, It leaues Sir to be Newes.
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 339 Of such a division..there is no News nor Example in Antiquity.
1711 M. Henry Hope & Fear Balanced in Wks. (1853) II. 313/1 The stocks are as the news is.
1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 660 When..the news was fresh.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iv, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 69 Was there any news in the country?
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 351 The next news was that I was in the water.
1962 E. Albee Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ii. 181 I have some..terrible news for you... It's about our..son. He's dead.
1991 P. J. O'Rourke Parl. of Whores (1992) 34 Most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated.
c. As predicate: a person, thing, or place regarded as worthy of discussion or of reporting by the media.
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society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > person, place, etc., as topic of discussion
news1917
1917 R. Kipling Diversity of Creatures 192 The great Baron Reuter himself..flashed that letter in full to the front, back, and both wings of this scene of our labours. For Huckley was News.
1946 E. Waugh When Going was Good v. 260 Abyssinia was News. Everyone with any claims to African experience was cashing in.
1965 Listener 23 Sept. 452/2 The reading boom..has made poets news, and it has made them think about being news.
1974 V. Gielgud In Such a Night vii. 58 I am not what is commonly called ‘news’. But..my wife is ‘news’ in the biggest possible way.
3. As a count noun: a piece or item of news. Now chiefly Caribbean and Indian English.
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society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > piece of
tiding1069
novela1500
news1574
evangel1842
1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 3 A case so graue, a newes so new [Port. nueua tan nueua], a victory so seldome hard of.
1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. I. v. 157 At that same time there came two important nuses [It. due importanti auuisi].
a1652 R. Brome Eng. Moor i. ii. 6 in Five New Playes (1659) Durst thou hear a news Whose mirth will hazzard cracking of a rib?
1840 R. Browning Sordello iv. 151 A last news crownd The consternation: since his infant's birth He only waits.
1978 T. Murphy Crucial Week in Life Grocer's Assistant vi. 49 ‘This town’, he said, ‘is like a graveyard with walking pus-eaten corpses, and fat maggots jumping from one corpse to the next, looking for newses.’
1979 P. Nihalani et al. Indian & Brit. Eng. i. 127 This is a good news.
1996 S. Mootoo Cereus blooms at Night i. 28 He travel dirt road to bring them such a news.
4. † a. The newspapers; (rare) a newspaper. Obsolete.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun]
intelligencer1598
courant1621
coranto1624
paper1642
mercury1643
newsletter1665
newspaper1667
slip1688
raga1734
news1738
gazetteer1742
sheet1754
news sheet1841
spread1848
linen-draper1857
newsprint1897
blat1932
linen1955
mimeo newspaper1973
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 183 You know, his House was burnt down to the Ground... Yes; it was in the News.
1782 W. Cowper Names of Little Note 10 When a child..Has burnt to tinder a stale last-year's news.
1785 G. Crabbe News-paper 2 A daily swarm..Come flying forth, and mortals call them News: For these unread the noblest volumes lie.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) Our Tom's a good scolard; why, most every night they zends vor-n to come into the Barley Mow vor to read out the war 'pon the news.
b. Printing. A kind of paper used in manufacturing newspaper; newsprint.
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society > communication > printing > paper > [noun] > types of printing paper
newspaper1756
tissue1780
surface paper1851
pulp paper1863
India paper1875
onion skin1879
news1887
bâtonné1892
Bible paper1926
1887 J. Southward Pract. Printing (ed. 3) 716 ‘Writings’, ‘Printings’, and ‘News’, are kinds [of paper] whose names show the purposes for which they are made.
1937 E. J. Labarre Dict. Paper 167/1 Newspaper, generally called ‘Newsprint’ or ‘News’ only..is paper made from stock varying from 70% mechanical wood pulp and the remainder unbleached sulphite, to practically 100% ‘mechanical’.
1963 W. C. Kenneison & A. J. B. Spilman Dict. Printing 133 News offcuts, newsprint in sheets cut to convenient sizes from remainders left on reel ends.]
c. A radio or television broadcast in which news is announced and sometimes discussed; (also) a newsreel. Usually with the.
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society > communication > broadcasting > a broadcast programme or item > [noun] > types of
news bulletin1857
news summary1875
police message1886
newsflash1904
headline1908
play-by-play1909
feature1913
spot ad1916
magazine1921
news1923
time signal1923
outside broadcast1924
radiocast1924
amateur hour1925
bulletin1925
serial1926
commentary1927
rebroadcast1927
school broadcast1927
feature programme1928
trailer1928
hour1930
schools broadcast1930
show1930
spot advertisement1930
spot announcement1930
sustaining1931
flash1934
newscast1934
commercial1935
clambake1937
remote1937
repeat1937
snap1937
soap opera1939
sportcast1939
spot commercial1939
daytimer1940
magazine programme1941
season1942
soap1943
soaper1946
parade1947
public service announcement1948
simulcasting1949
breakfast-time television1952
call-in1952
talkathon1952
game show1953
kidvid1955
roundup1958
telenovela1961
opt-out1962
miniseries1963
simulcast1964
soapie1964
party political1966
novela1968
phone-in1968
sudser1968
schools programme1971
talk-in1971
God slot1972
roadshow1973
trail1973
drama-doc1977
informercial1980
infotainment1980
infomercial1981
kideo1983
talk-back1984
indie1988
omnibus1988
teleserye2000
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1923 Radio Times 28 Sept. 9/1 10.0. —— Time signal, general news bulletin. Broadcast to all stations, followed by London News and Weather Report.
1939 T. S. Eliot Family Reunion ii. i. 97 And now it is nearly time for the news We must listen to the weather report And the international catastrophes.
1953 M. Laski Victorian Chaise Longue 64 It was that programme just before the news.
1973 J. Drummond Bang! Bang! You're Dead! xxxvi. 126 The ginger-headed Crabbe was watching the nine o'clock news.
1994 J. Kelman How Late it Was 263 Did ye listen to the news the day? Naw did I fuck listen to the news.
Phrases
P1. † a. no news: no novelty, nothing new. Obsolete.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > something old > and familiar
no newsc1535
oldie1938
c1535 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1901) I. 14 How saluatiounn in Christ is na newes, bot a thing prophezyed of auld.
1557 Bible (Whittingham) 1 Pet. i. (heading) Saluation in Christ is no newes, but a thynge prophecied of olde.
1573 New Custome i. ii. sig. B j For as for Christ our maister, what hee thought of Iewes: And after hym thapostles, I thinke it is no newes.
1618 Bp. J. Hall Righteovs Mammon 46 The poore and proud is the Wise-mans monster, but the proud and rich are no newes.
1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (cvii. 43 Annot.) 549/1 'Tis no news to pass from the singular to the plural number, without varying the subject.
b. colloquial. this (also that, it) is news to me (him, her, etc.): ‘I (he, etc.) did not know this (or that).’
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > be ignorant [phrase] > profess ignorance
to wit ne'era1400
this (also that, it) is news to me (him, her, etc.)1777
quien sabe1833
search me1885
ask me another1910
1607 Fayre Mayde of Exchange sig. E4v I know you are short membred, but not so short Of your remembrance, that this is newes to you.]
1777 C. Reeve Champion of Virtue 37 All this is news to me, said Edmund.
1845 Ladies' Repository 5 May 134 ‘Indeed,’ replied he; ‘that is news to me. But are you in earnest?’
1898 S. J. Weyman Castle Inn xvi. 159 For the rest, which this gentleman says, about who she is and her claim..it is news to me.
1919 D. Ashford Young Visiters viii. 69 Ethel he said blushing a deep red I always wished to marry you some fine day. This is news to me cried Ethel.
1974 M. Z. Lewin Enemies Within xxxiv. 154 ‘I'm going to Chicago shortly.’ News to me. But not a bad idea.
2000 T. Clancy Bear & Dragon xxxiv. 517 This is all news to us, Dan.
c. the good news..the bad news..: expressing an unfortunate or undesirable downside to an otherwise welcome development or state of affairs. Also good-news-bad-news adj. (attributive): designating a joke, story, etc., told in this manner.Frequently used humorously, with allusion to the use of the formula in jokes (see quot. 1972).
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1958 Changing Times Nov. 3 The good news is that more pay will enable the lucky ones to raise their standard of living a notch or two. The bad news is that another round of pay boosts means an added whirl to the inflationary cycle.
1972 F. Knebel Dark Horse (1973) xii. 186 ‘There are a couple of things I want to talk to you about. From your standpoint, some bad news and some good news, we might say.’.. ‘Is this like that story of the school principal who calls a father and says I've got some bad news and some good news for you? The bad news is that we've discovered your son is a fag. The good news is that he's just been elected queen of May.’
1977 C. McFadden Serial (1978) xiv. 35/1 What happened next was a particularly humiliating version of a ‘good news/bad news’ joke. Harvey was given a clean bill of health…the doctor on duty..of course just had to be a tennis friend.
1985 Observer 22 Sept. 20/7 The good news is that the state..would ask all prostitutes to take screening tests for the AIDS virus. The bad news is that those who fail will not be banned from working.
2001 N.Y. Times 3 June xi. 10/2 My engineers came to me with a good-news, bad-news story... The good news was that they could add the four floors; the bad news was that they wanted to put two columns in the middle of the ballroom.
P2.
a. In various proverbial phrases expressing the idea that bad news tends to circulate quickly (or more quickly than good news). Now esp. in bad news travels fast.
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1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 91 Euill newes neuer commeth to late [Port. La mala nueua nunca llega tarde].
1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. i. sig. B2v Euill newes flie faster still than good.
1685 J. Dryden Threnodia Augustalis ii. 3 Ill News is wing'd with Fate, and flies apace.
1806 Lady's Monthly Museum June 382 They say, ‘bad news travels fast’; and I have sad tidings, indeed, to relate.
1909 P. G. Wodehouse Mike (1919) xxvi. 144 Bad news spreads quickly. By the..next day the facts concerning Wyatt and Mr. Wain were public property.
2006 Sunday Territorian (Austral.) (Nexis) 4 June 20 Bad news travels fast but good news finds it difficult to travel at all.
b. no news is good news and variants: without information to the contrary you can assume that all is well.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > be ignorant [phrase] > be pleased
no news is good news1616
the mind > emotion > pleasure > contentment or satisfaction > expressing content or satisfaction [phrase] > expression of satisfaction up to a point
no news is good news1616
so far, so good1721
society > communication > information > news or tidings > [phrase] > implying absence of news is good
no news is good news1616
1616 King James VI & I Let. 13 May in A. J. Kempe Loseley Manuscripts (1835) 403 I desyre not that ye shoulde trouble me with an ansoure, for no newis is bettir then evill newis.
1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 60 I am of the I[t]alians mind that said Nulla nuova, buona nuova, no newes good newes.
1793 J. Woodforde Diary 9 Mar. (1929) IV. 13 No letters at all. No news I hope is good.
1850 F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh x. 101 Arguing..(on the ‘no-news being good-news’ system) that I should have heard again if anything had gone wrong, I dismissed the subject from my mind.
1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin xviii. 336 They could not bring themselves to believe that ‘no news was good news’.
1990 H. Whittemore CNN i. 28 Turner went on while Schonfeld thoroughly enjoyed the tirade. ‘Ain't you tired of all that news?.. No news is good news’!
P3.
a. to be bad news: (originally U.S.) to be unpleasant, undesirable, or unwelcome. Also to be good news: to be admirable, desirable, or welcome.
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1918 R. W. Imbrie Behind Wheel of War Ambulance ix. 115 New men were apt to be confused by the talk, for the Squad possessed a vocabulary and language all its own. Everything was either ‘good news’ or ‘bad news’ depending on how it struck the Squad.
1919 War Expenditures (U.S. Congr.) (1920) III. 4046 I have seen him make love to one of the girls up in the hotel—a girl who told him time and time again that he was ‘bad news’.
1956 S. Byrne Design for Headstone i. 22 Mark my words!—she's bad news.
1969 Pop. Mech. Sept. 26/2 Slicks get the best bite... They are very bad news in the rain, however.
1970 C. Collingwood Defector ii. 12 Charlie La Bomba was a character. Not always good news.
1973 ‘E. McBain’ Let's hear It v. 69 Bikies had begun drifting into the area, sporting their leather jackets and their swastikas... The bikies were bad news.
1981 S. Rushdie Midnight's Children 20 A landowner's daughter is good news indeed to a doctor with a career to make, even if she is ill.
1999 BBC Top Gear Mag. June 188/4 The trade reckons that Mondeo estates are very good news too, commanding up to $1,000 on top of hatchback prices.
2003 G. Joseph Big Smoke xiii. 136 He wondered what was in store for him now. Those Biggs brothers were real bad news.
b. to be old (also yesterday's) news: (originally U.S.) to be considered no longer of interest, relevance, or importance, esp. through over-familarity. Cf. 2c.
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1962 in M. L. Mace & G. G. Montgomery Managem. Probl. Of Corporate Acquisitions viii. 203 He doesn't tell you that the purple dress is yesterday's news and not worth $2.00 now.
1968 Sun (Baltimore) 7 July 5/2 Charlie is old news. We broke up.
1987 Restaurant Business Mag. (Nexis) 1 July 177 Bopping to the hop in saddle shoes in a diner-like setting is old news.
1998 Cycling Today May 35/4 But it's also because the MTB market is where it's at and road bikes have been ‘yesterday's news’ for so long.
2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 25 June iv. 12/3 The Clintons are old news. Feed us some fresh meat.
P4. in the news: being reported by the news media; (hence) currently exciting public interest or speculation.
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1934 Discovery Jan. 14/1 That elusive creature the sea-serpent is again in the news, this time in the shape of the Loch Ness ‘monster’.
1958 W. Plomer At Home ix. 129 He was not at all of the kind of solitary..poets of the Romantic tradition, but an example of a twentieth-century kind that feel it necessary to be if not in the news at least not behind the times.
1972 C. Weston Poor, Poor Ophelia (1973) xxxii. 205 A lot of yak is in the news about the missing boot.
1996 Independent 10 Dec. ii. 11/3 Paracetamol, one of the most commonly popped pills in the world, is in the news again.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. † news-master n. Obsolete† news-whoop n. Obsolete
news article n.
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1855 National Era (Electronic ed.) 5 Apr. 55 The Columbia, while occupying a decided position in Politics, will contain various Literary, Miscellaneous, and News articles of interest.
1928 Amer. Speech 4 134 His chief duty is to judge the amount of space to be given any ‘story’ or news article.
2001 South Wales Evening Post (Electronic ed.) 12 May All too often a good news article in one edition is countered by a knocking story in the next.
news blackout n.
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society > communication > journalism > supply of news or newspapers > [noun] > stoppage or suppression of news
news blackout1941
1941 Portsmouth (Ohio) Times 30 Mar. 6/5 The news blackout has settled over the Netherlands,..imposed by Nazi censors.
1974 R. Hawkey & R. Bingham Wild Card xxiii. 192 To reduce the risk of panic..a news blackout was requested.
2001 Nation (N.Y.) 30 Apr. 32/1 There was usually, as in Nicaragua or Chile, a layer of deniability, either about the crimes or about US support or, as in East Timor in 1975, a virtual news blackout.
news-board n.
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1919 J. Joyce Ulysses x. [Wandering Rocks] in Little Rev. June 36 He passed Grogan's the tobacconist against which newsboards leaned.
1994 L. A. Graf Traitor Winds xiii. 162 Halon mists drizzled out from darkened newsboards.
news broadcast n.
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1854 Harper's Mag. Dec. 119/1 It was at evening, and the Extras, in a moment, sowed the exciting news broadcast over the town.
1937 E. B. White in New Yorker 15 May 16/1 A dramatized news broadcast..is definitely reassuring to a lot of sleepy fowl, dreaming of hawks and weasels in a henhouse far away.
1993 Economist 7 Aug. 8/4 News broadcasts from Arab countries refer daily to those extremists.
news bulletin n.
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society > communication > broadcasting > a broadcast programme or item > [noun] > types of
news bulletin1857
news summary1875
police message1886
newsflash1904
headline1908
play-by-play1909
feature1913
spot ad1916
magazine1921
news1923
time signal1923
outside broadcast1924
radiocast1924
amateur hour1925
bulletin1925
serial1926
commentary1927
rebroadcast1927
school broadcast1927
feature programme1928
trailer1928
hour1930
schools broadcast1930
show1930
spot advertisement1930
spot announcement1930
sustaining1931
flash1934
newscast1934
commercial1935
clambake1937
remote1937
repeat1937
snap1937
soap opera1939
sportcast1939
spot commercial1939
daytimer1940
magazine programme1941
season1942
soap1943
soaper1946
parade1947
public service announcement1948
simulcasting1949
breakfast-time television1952
call-in1952
talkathon1952
game show1953
kidvid1955
roundup1958
telenovela1961
opt-out1962
miniseries1963
simulcast1964
soapie1964
party political1966
novela1968
phone-in1968
sudser1968
schools programme1971
talk-in1971
God slot1972
roadshow1973
trail1973
drama-doc1977
informercial1980
infotainment1980
infomercial1981
kideo1983
talk-back1984
indie1988
omnibus1988
teleserye2000
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1857 Ladies' Repository Jan. 33 The idea of a news bulletin did not originate in England; but the newspaper did.
1873 Cornhill Mag. June 703 The derivation of the word gazette is ascribed to the small coin paid by the public for copies of a news-bulletin first issued..during the wars of Venice against the Turks.
1973 C. Egleton Seven Days to Killing xx. 211 Julyan sat..listening to the transistor radio... The music faded to give way to the news bulletin.
news conference n.
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society > communication > journalism > supply of news or newspapers > [noun] > press conference
press conference1908
news conference1937
1937 New Yorker 19 June 21 (caption) News conference: a good murder, but it's on Staten Island.
1989 Japan Times 15 May 3/1 Sihanouk also told a news conference in Bangkok that he was ‘sure’ civil war would erupt in Cambodia.
news coverage n.
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1930 Editor & Publisher 16 Aug. 5/1 The overflow of metropolitan population into suburban areas..has been paralleled by metropolitan newspapers in their news coverage of these areas.
1993 Chicago Tribune 19 June ii. 11/3 Critics lambasted news coverage that seemed to emphasize brassy graphics and ‘police-blotter stories’ over more traditional reporting.
news day n.
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society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > day on which news is received
news day1746
1746 G. Berkeley Let. 6 Feb. in Wks. (1871) IV. 305 Regret..which was on the following news-day increased upon hearing the fate of your niece.
1871 Littell's Living Age 6 May 334 This New-year's day was to be a real news-day.
2000 N.Y. Times 8 Aug. a21/4 The Gore campaign was off on a fast break with its hottest news day in months.
news editor n.
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society > communication > journalism > journalist > editor of journal or newspaper > [noun] > other types of journal or newspaper editor
telegraph editor1816
editor1837
managing editor1837
sporting editor1857
news editor1868
day editor1869
art editor1871
guest editor1925
1868 Putnam's Mag. Sept. 293 The path of the local editor and reporter is no less thorny and narrow than that of the news-editor.
1931 Daily Express 16 Oct. 11/3 Before I die, I wish to see the countenance of my own news editor when I stand before him admitting a similar circumstance.
1990 P. Magubane et al. Soweto ii. 28 Daily news reports described incidents..from unheard-of places that news editors could not find on any map.
news feature n.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > matter of or for journals > [noun] > item > news item
news item1844
news brief1887
news feature1895
1895 Scribner's Mag. June 706 A..lantern parade of bicyclists..which was made a news feature the next day in important journals.
1912 International (N.Y.) Apr. 79/1 It is wonderful what a variety of cultured subjects are concentrated in the Gould article—economics..and heart interest ‘news feature’ as the daily papers would say.
1991 S. Faludi Backlash i. ii. 35 According to dozens of news features, advice books, and women's health manuals, single women were suffering from ‘record’ levels of depression.
news film n.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > type of programme
dramedy1905
news film1912
sex comedy1915
television adaptation1935
action comedy1936
sportcast1939
teleshopper1949
telethon1949
special1952
television special1952
TV special1952
science-fictioner1953
spectacular1954
promo1955
sitcom1956
spec1959
spin-off1959
reality programming1962
teleroman1964
mockumentary1965
serialization1965
talk show1965
laugh-in1967
novela1968
reality show1968
breakfast television1971
spy series1975
reality television1978
reality TV1980
series1988
shockumentary1988
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > other types
romantic comedy1748
epic1785
pre-release1871
foreign film1899
frivol1903
dramedy1905
film loop1906
first run1910
detective film1911
colour film1912
news film1912
topical1912
cinemicrograph1913
scenic1913
sport1913
newsreel1914
serial1914
sex comedy1915
war picture1915
telefilm1919
comic1920
true crime1923
art house1925
quickie1926
turkey1927
two-reeler1928
smellie1929
disaster film1930
musical1930
feelie1931
sticky1934
action comedy1936
quota quickie1936
re-release1936
screwball comedy1937
telemovie1937
pickup1939
video film1939
actioner1940
space opera1941
telepic1944
biopic1947
kinescope1949
TV movie1949
pièce noire1951
pièce rose1951
deepie1953
misterioso1953
film noir1956
policier1956
psychodrama1956
free film1958
prequel1958
co-production1959
glossy1960
sexploiter1960
sci-fier1961
tie-in1962
chanchada1963
romcom1963
wuxia1963
chick flick1964
showreel1964
mockumentary1965
sword-and-sandal1965
schlockbuster1966
mondo1967
peplum1968
thriller1968
whydunit1968
schlocker1969
buddy-buddy movie1972
buddy-buddy film1974
buddy film1974
science-fictioner1974
screwball1974
buddy movie1975
slasher movie1975
swashbuckler1975
filmi1976
triptych1976
autobiopic1977
Britcom1977
kidflick1977
noir1977
bodice-ripper1979
chopsocky1981
date movie1983
kaiju eiga1984
screener1986
neo-noir1987
indie1990
bromance2001
hack-and-slash2002
mumblecore2005
dark fantasy2007
hack-and-slay2007
gorefest2012
kidult-
1912 F. A. Talbot Moving Pictures xxv. 282 The ‘composition’, or, as it is called, the ‘make-up’, of the animated news film is just as complex as that of a newspaper or magazine.
1940 J. Reith Diary 16 Jan. (1975) v. 238 Very bothered about a news film..in which Hore-Belisha was cheered and Gort received in silence.
1974 Times 9 Dec. 13/2 Producers of television..want..access to Parliament for the making of news film on the big occasions.
news item n.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > matter of or for journals > [noun] > item > news item
news item1844
news brief1887
news feature1895
1844 Knickerbocker 24 179 News-items, matters of information, actual discoveries.
1958 New Statesman 20 Dec. 871/1 The second intrusive news-item concerns the budget.
1995 Mixmag May 84/1 The deaths were the kind of shock news items that come along once in a blue moon.
news magazine n.
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1890 Science 3 Jan. 11 The first number of a weekly news magazine.
1953 Encounter Nov. 5/1 He shifted to the weekly news-magazine, Der Spiegel.
1992 Economist 31 Oct. 51/1 Old News is the output of the broadsheet newspapers, the news magazines and the television networks' news shows.
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society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > bearer of news > retailer of news
news-master1624
news-broker1672
news-dealer1788
news-crier1826
1624 B. Jonson Neptunes Triumph 295 Graue Mr Ambler, Newes-master of Poules.
news-matter n.
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1853 Sci. Amer. 9 111 (advt.) It embraces more agricultural.., scientific, educational, literary, and news matter..than any other journal.
1959 Times 14 Jan. 12/5 The setting and make-up of newsmatter.
news media n.
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1934 Pacific Affairs 7 182 Though the modern papers differ radically from the indigenous news media, the newspaper..is not a new phenomenon in Chinese experience.
1962 Amer. Speech 37 44 The news media in Moscow relayed to the American press the sensational story of Gagarin's space flight.
1994 R. Preston Hot Zone 230 He hadn't given them ordinary walkie-talkies because he didn't want anybody listening to the talk, especially the news media.
news medium n.
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1849 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel & Gaz. 19 Feb. We publish the prospectus of the Milwaukee Wisconsin..and would recommend the sheet as an excellent news medium.
1919 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 6 355 This news medium, which bears the name of the Great Lakes Bulletin, contains eight small pages of three columns each.
1928 Time 16 July 5 One does not mind that in so excellent a news-medium.
1996 Public Opinion Q. 60 531 Suitability concerns a story's..fit within the framework of the news medium (whether newspaper, magazine, or television news).
news messenger n.
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society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > bearer of news
news tellera1586
newsmonger1592
newsman1596
newsbearer1598
novelant1602
news-bringer1608
news-carrier1612
occurrencer1648
news-sender1696
novelist1706
news messenger1849
breaker1864
1849 in R. Southey Common-place Bk. 2nd Ser. 412/1 (heading) Indian news-messengers.
1998 Business Week (Nexis) 27 Apr. 16 Freelance writer and communications consultant Virginia O'Brien is a good news messenger.
news office n.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > journalism > supply of news or newspapers > [noun] > place for collection or dissemination of news
news office1631
1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes i. vi. 25 in Wks. II Giue your worship ioy O' your new place, your Emissary-ship, I' the Newes Office.
1870 W. Orton Govt. Telegr. 15 As soon as it [sc. the message] is translated they send it back to the commercial news office.
1991 Reason Dec. 29/1 He served as chief scientist writer in the MIT News Office during the unfolding of the cold-fusion story.
news page n.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > parts and layout of journals > [noun] > page of newspaper
news page1808
1808 W. Scott Marmion v. Introd. 228 When wrinkled news-page, thrice con'd o'er, Beguiles the dreary hour no more.
1885 Cent. Mag. Jan. 461/2 Absolute independence of partisan trammels in its news pages, whatever may be the bias of its editorial columns.
1991 Times 19 Oct. (Review Suppl.) 23/1 Once every few years, this esoteric pursuit finds its way on to the news pages..which confirms the rest of the population in the opinion that twitchers are all irretrievably potty.
news report n.
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1852 L. Turnbull Lect. on Electro-magnetic Telegr. 125 The connector is an instrument first invented and applied by E. Cornell, Esq...to work a branch line from Auburn to Ithaca, for the purpose of taking news reports at Ithaca.
1931 C. E. Rogers Journalistic Vocations iii. 57 The United Press developed the use of the telephone for delivering abbreviated news reports.
2000 Big Issue 20 Mar. 33/2 Although to some it may appear to be nothing more than a very biased news report, the producers aim for it to contribute to the on-going battle against globalisation.
news scribe n.
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society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > news-writer
newsmonger1592
newsman1596
news writer1650
Mercurist1652
postman1695
news-dealer1788
newspaper writer?1789
newspaperman1806
news scribe1823
newspaperwoman1881
newsperson1973
newsie1975
1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. I. 132 All the race of news-scribes.
1983 People (Nexis) 11 July 30 Ross has become something of a news scribe himself. He writes a weekly column.
news shop n.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shops selling other specific goods
jeweller's shop1632
ironmongery1648
ironmonger1673
jeweller1675
news shop1688
print shop1689
Indian house1692
coal shed1718
pamphlet shop1721
lormery1725
drugstore1771
hardware store1777
junk store1777
chandler-shop1782
junk shop1790
music store1794
pot shop1794
finding store1822
marine store1837
picture house1838
paint shop1847
news agency1852
chemist1856
Army and Navy1878
cyclery1886
jumble-shop1893
pig shop1896
Manchester department1905
lot1909
craft shop1911
garden centre1912
pet shop1927
sex shop1949
video store1949
quincaillerie1951
home centre1955
Army-Navy1965
cookshop1967
sound shop1972
bucket-shop1973
1688 London Gaz. No. 2375/2 The Man being..hang'd before his own News~shop.
1848 C. Dickens Dombey & Son lvii. 573 There is a dusty old clerk, who keeps a sort of evaporated news shop underneath an archway opposite.
1992 Sci. Fiction & Fantasy Writers of Amer. Bull. Spring 27/1 Make intensive, one-on-one contact with..the ‘jobbers’ who buy for supermarkets and airport news shops.
news show n.
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1960 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 54 367/2 The radio service would abandon many of its broadcasts and make available during the General Assembly a 15-minute news show only when there was a firm demand from a member state and when it would be rebroadcast at a satisfactory listening hour.
2001 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 11 Aug. Watchdog..is a consumer programme that began its life as a slot on news show Nationwide.
news story n.
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1905 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 11 300 ‘What is news?’ and the ‘structure of a news story’ are no longer abstract theories when they..emerge from a mass of concrete material.
1974 M. G. Eberhart Danger Money (1975) xiii. 136 She can't stop the news stories but perhaps she can soften them.
news studio n.
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1940 Public Opinion Q. 4 381/2 Vivid account of events in CBS news studios amid the torrent of incoming news from Europe.
1999 People (Electronic ed.) 29 Aug. The 28-year-old brunette..threw the news studio into a mad panic when she didn't arrive.
news summary n.
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society > communication > broadcasting > a broadcast programme or item > [noun] > types of
news bulletin1857
news summary1875
police message1886
newsflash1904
headline1908
play-by-play1909
feature1913
spot ad1916
magazine1921
news1923
time signal1923
outside broadcast1924
radiocast1924
amateur hour1925
bulletin1925
serial1926
commentary1927
rebroadcast1927
school broadcast1927
feature programme1928
trailer1928
hour1930
schools broadcast1930
show1930
spot advertisement1930
spot announcement1930
sustaining1931
flash1934
newscast1934
commercial1935
clambake1937
remote1937
repeat1937
snap1937
soap opera1939
sportcast1939
spot commercial1939
daytimer1940
magazine programme1941
season1942
soap1943
soaper1946
parade1947
public service announcement1948
simulcasting1949
breakfast-time television1952
call-in1952
talkathon1952
game show1953
kidvid1955
roundup1958
telenovela1961
opt-out1962
miniseries1963
simulcast1964
soapie1964
party political1966
novela1968
phone-in1968
sudser1968
schools programme1971
talk-in1971
God slot1972
roadshow1973
trail1973
drama-doc1977
informercial1980
infotainment1980
infomercial1981
kideo1983
talk-back1984
indie1988
omnibus1988
teleserye2000
kidult-
1875 Overland Monthly Nov. 464 The New York news summary was at least thirteen days old before the readers of the Journal and Packet had an opportunity of perusing it.
1941 B.B.C. Gloss. Broadcasting Terms 20 News summary: (1) Brief statement of salient news items, broadcast at a fixed time. (2) Brief statement of principal news items, broadcast as a preface in a news bulletin.
1973 A. MacVicar Painted Doll Affair ii. 33 I turned on the dashboard radio... The pop music was interrupted by a news summary.
news value n.
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1856 Ladies' Repository Aug. 483 Whatever success it has attained beyond its news value, has been rather on account of the recklessness..of its opinions.
1906 J. London Let. 8 Apr. (1966) 198 But what I did propose to you was ‘events of large news-value’.
1980 A. Mars-Jones Lantern Lect. & other Stories (1981) 105 He is running his eyes over the pages to reassure himself that the paper's hierarchy of news-value is being maintained.
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society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > loud summons to hear news
news-whoop1775
1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 301 To call them, by sounding the news-whoop, as soon as he arrived at camp.
b.
news-crammed adj.
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society > communication > information > news or tidings > [adjective] > full of news
news-crammeda1616
newsful1639
newsy1818
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) i. ii. 91 Then shal we be newes-cram'd . View more context for this quotation
1828 R. Montgomery Puffiad ii. 68 She sipp'd her cocoa, then the news-cramm'd page.
2000 Post-Crescent (Wisconsin) 30 Jan. The fuss over the tax credit may be the best news of the news-crammed week.
c. † news-thirsting adj. Obsolete
news-greedy adj.
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society > communication > information > news or tidings > [adjective] > eager for news
news-thirsting1600
news-greedy1605
news seeking1835
1605 J. Sylvester tr. O. de la Noue Profit of Imprisonm. in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. 652 So it also fares with our newes-greedy eare.
2000 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 8 Nov. e20 (heading) News-greedy surfers jam high-speed links.
news-hungry adj.
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1906 N. P. Gilman et al. in Publ. Amer. Econ. Assoc. 7 212 I know of a few personal brawls magnified into riots by news-hungry reporters.
1994 Rolling Stone 2 June 43/1 16-year-old Kimberly Wagner sat on a wall for four hours, crying and fielding queries from news-hungry TV stations and magazines.
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society > communication > information > news or tidings > [adjective] > eager for news
news-thirsting1600
news-greedy1605
news seeking1835
1600 Looke about You sig. A3v In the hollow of newes thirsting eares.
C2. Objective.† news-broker n. Obsolete† news-lover n. Obsolete† news-sender n. Obsolete
newsbearer n.
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society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > bearer of news
news tellera1586
newsmonger1592
newsman1596
newsbearer1598
novelant1602
news-bringer1608
news-carrier1612
occurrencer1648
news-sender1696
novelist1706
news messenger1849
breaker1864
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Intelligentiére, an intelligencer, or news-bearer.
1895 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 357 Citizens who had flocked as near as possible to the newsbearer.
1986 W. Kay Scots (1988) 152 Grace..used to visit my grandmother, acting as newsbearer and Greek chorus for the pit village.
news-bringer n.
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society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > bearer of news
news tellera1586
newsmonger1592
newsman1596
newsbearer1598
novelant1602
news-bringer1608
news-carrier1612
occurrencer1648
news-sender1696
novelist1706
news messenger1849
breaker1864
1608 W. Crashaw tr. N. Balbani Newes from Italy xxviii. 78 So this newes bringer had his pas-port to be packing.
1894 ‘M. Twain’ Pudd'nhead Wilson xii. 159 Howard smiled an iron smile, and nodded his head approvingly. Then the news-bringer spoke again.
1989 Orange County (Calif.) Register (Nexis) 9 Aug. 44 Plums come in a variety of colors, including green, so greenness or lack of it is no news-bringer where ripeness is concerned.
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society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > bearer of news > retailer of news
news-master1624
news-broker1672
news-dealer1788
news-crier1826
1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. ix. 77 Breeders of all petit factions, news-brokers.
news-carrier n.
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society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > bearer of news
news tellera1586
newsmonger1592
newsman1596
newsbearer1598
novelant1602
news-bringer1608
news-carrier1612
occurrencer1648
news-sender1696
novelist1706
news messenger1849
breaker1864
1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 177 These Newes-Carriers, did..many times raise troubles.
1788 New London Mag. (title page) Sold by all Booksellers, Stationers, and News-Carriers.
1838 J. F. Cooper Home as Found II. ii. 21 The very best news-carrier in the village is spoilt, because he is thick-winded.
2001 Canberra Times (Nexis) 28 July 4 It is..quite another [thing] to plug in to the free flow of CNN, ABC and other news carriers while traversing the Middle Kingdom.
news collector n.
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1780 in Notes & Queries (1916) 28 Oct. 350/1 John Swan newscollector to the London Evening Post.
1835 F. A. Butler Jrnl. in N. Amer. Rev. July 115 At about four o'clock a schooner came alongside with a news collector; he was half devoured with queries.
1997 Foreign Policy (Electronic ed.) June Vast realms of our world either cannot or will not be covered by the news collectors because of the high costs involved in news gathering and because many repressive regimes will not let them in.
news-crier n.
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society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > bearer of news > retailer of news
news-master1624
news-broker1672
news-dealer1788
news-crier1826
1647 J. Taylor Recommendation Mercurius Morbicus 3 This City-news-Cryers head hath been stuft as full as a fardle.]
1826 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1276 Those newscriers are spoken off [sic] in the past sense.
2001 Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) (Nexis) 23 Jan. a9 President Rich Trunnell is bringing back the ‘President's Corner’ column in the Crofton News-Crier, sister paper of The Capital.
news-dealer n.
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society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > news-writer
newsmonger1592
newsman1596
news writer1650
Mercurist1652
postman1695
news-dealer1788
newspaper writer?1789
newspaperman1806
news scribe1823
newspaperwoman1881
newsperson1973
newsie1975
society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > bearer of news > retailer of news
news-master1624
news-broker1672
news-dealer1788
news-crier1826
1788 T. Jefferson Let. 17 May in Papers (1956) XIII. 173 Your resurrection from the dead among whom you had been confidently entombed by the news-dealers of Paris.
1861 Chicago Tribune 15 Apr. We..are now prepared to furnish News Dealers and Booksellers with Every Paper, Periodical and Book.
2000 Kirkus Rev. (Nexis) 15 Dec. The streets were full of deformed pencil-sellers and midget news-dealers.
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society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > news-lover or -seeker
news-lover1605
news seeker1858
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 310 Poore Woman..Light, credulous, newes-louer.
news-loving n.
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1603 T. Dekker et al. Patient Grissill sig. C3 Rumour that presently, to the wide eares Of that newes-louing-beast the multitude.
1872 Appleton's Jrnl. 10 Feb. 153/1 We are certainly a news-loving people.
2000 Editor & Publisher Mag. (Nexis) 6 Nov. 46 Chip Tracer—cyberjournalist and hero to news-loving kids everywhere.
news-making adj. and n.
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > gossiping
taling1382
susurrationa1425
trattlinga1425
tittlinga1450
tattlea1529
tittle-tattlea1529
tittle-tattlinga1586
news-making1707
gossiping1712
gossipry1818
gossipred1828
anecdoting1845
calleting1905
hen-cackle1907
1707 E. Ward London Terræ-filius No. 2. 30 To be found about that Hour among the News-making Ninny-hammers.
1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie I. xxi. 182 As ye're acquaint wi' a' the jookery-cookery of newsmaking.
1858 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem l. lxi. 237 Not as a piece of gossip or news-making.
1991 Brit. Jrnl. Criminol. 21 443 This book is the second part of a trilogy based on an extensive study of news-making in the press and television in Toronto.
news reporter n.
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1837 Southern Literary Messenger 3 310/1 Besides keeping in regular pay, a strong corps of news-reporters, it pays other persons three pence a line, for all they furnish, worthy of publication.
1915 F. Palmer My Year of Great War 205 The conditions are such as to make a news reporter throw up his hands and faint.
2001 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 20 Sept. David joined the BBC in the early 1960s and became a news reporter before presenting a variety of programmes.
news seeker n.
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society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > news-lover or -seeker
news-lover1605
news seeker1858
1858 T. Guthrie Christ & Inheritance Saints (1860) 207 News such as these news-seekers had never dreamed of.
1985 Maclean's (Nexis) 2 Dec. 38 Washington and Moscow competed to keep the news seekers busy with a flurry of briefings and a blizzard of press releases.
2000 Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (Nexis) 12 June a2 (headline) News seekers turning to the Net, poll finds.
news seeking n.
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society > communication > information > news or tidings > [adjective] > eager for news
news-thirsting1600
news-greedy1605
news seeking1835
1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West I. x. 115 A constant ingress and egress of thirsty, time-killing, news-seeking visiters [sic].
1972 Public Opinion Q. 36 188 The specific interpersonal motive of social prestige from displaying current events knowledge was suggested as an explanation for news seeking behaviour.
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society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > bearer of news
news tellera1586
newsmonger1592
newsman1596
newsbearer1598
novelant1602
news-bringer1608
news-carrier1612
occurrencer1648
news-sender1696
novelist1706
news messenger1849
breaker1864
1696 J. Macky View Court St. Germain 12 This Gentleman..was his weekly News Sender, and Project Drawer.
news teller n.
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society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > bearer of news
news tellera1586
newsmonger1592
newsman1596
newsbearer1598
novelant1602
news-bringer1608
news-carrier1612
occurrencer1648
news-sender1696
novelist1706
news messenger1849
breaker1864
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iv. sig. Mm5v Thinking his life onely reserued to be bound to bee the vnhappie newes teller.
1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 214 It was made pænall..to entertaine any of their Minstrels, Rimers, or Newes-tellers.
1850 S. Judd Richard Edney xx. 244 The stage was a teeming News-teller dropping its..bundles of information into hands that stretched up all along the way to receive them.
1986 Washington Post (Nexis) 23 Feb. k1 Folk music..has traditionally played the part of newspaper person, news teller, editorial.
news-telling adj. and n.
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society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > newsmongering
newsmongery1592
news-telling1611
newsmongering1707
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Nonciation Newes telling.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xl. 283 So as seldom or never..to encounter a single news-telling sail of any sort.
1952 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 57 424 Industrial sociology is pursued in the main by people who lean to the news-telling side.
news writing adj. and n.
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1691 R. Ames Lawyerus Bootatus & Spurratus 18 Projectors and their Undertakers, News Writing 'Squires and Ballad Makers, Were Walking here this Long-Vacation.
1857 Ladies' Repository June 376/2 The history of news-writing and news-publishing is a mirror of many of the changes in social necessities and conveniences.
2000 Scotsman (Electronic ed.) 22 Mar. A vocational journalism qualification, which aims to train students for a particular career through instruction in such subjects as law, shorthand, public administration and news writing.
C3. † news-bell n. English regional Obsolete a ringing in the ears supposed to portend news.
news anchor n. originally U.S. a person who presents and coordinates a live television or radio news broadcast.
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society > communication > broadcasting > broadcaster > [noun] > types of
co-host1908
announcer1922
newsreader1925
race-reader1926
newscaster1930
sportscaster1930
quizzee1933
school broadcaster1937
commentator1938
racecaster1938
sportcaster1938
femcee1940
record jockey1940
disc jockey1941
narrator1941
deejay1946
colourman1947
anchorman1948
host1948
jock1952
speakerine1957
presenter1959
linkman1960
anchorwoman1961
rock jock1961
anchor1962
jockey1963
voice-over1966
anchorperson1971
outside broadcaster1971
news anchor1975
talk-master1975
satcaster1982
1975 Philadelphia Daily News 3 Jan. 39/1 Stars of the new 'AM America' show are Bill Beutel and Stephanie Edwards, co-hosts in New York, and veteran Mideast correspondent Peter Jennings as the news anchor in Washington.
1986 Contemp. Sociol. 15 182/2 The authors persuaded Hollywood star Ed Asner and news anchor Sandy Hill..to co-host the program.
2001 Daily Tel. 18 Jan. 22/8 McDonald insists that his new contract will be his last as a news anchor.
news anchorman n. originally U.S. a man working as a news anchor.
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1969 N.Y. Times 2 Dec. 94/3 The debut last evening of..Frank McGee as 6 o'clock news anchorman for N.B.C.'s station here underscores television's constant competition for audience.
1974 Anderson (S. Carolina) Independent 19 Apr. 1 b/8 He has been with WLOS-TV for 14 years after working as a program director, news anchorman and radio disc jockey at other stations.
2001 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 29 Sept. BBC news anchorman Huw Edwards has admitted he felt like sobbing as he revealed the extent of the US terrorist atrocities.
news bee n. U.S. and Caribbean colloquial any large or noticeable insect, typically a bumblebee, a beetle, or a hoverfly, whose appearance in a house or around a person is supposed, in popular folklore, to indicate that news of some kind will soon arrive.
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1937 T. Turner in J. F. Dobie & M. C. Boatright Straight Texas 163 One will hear hasty news if a ‘news bee’ buzzes around him.
1949 E. Webber Backwoods Teacher 201 When a yellow news bee hovers around you it means you'll get a letter with good news, and..a black one foretells bad news.
1976 Advocate News (Barbados) 5 May 10 The flowers are very attractive to the large Bees which we call News Bees, with their shiny black wing cases, Bees well over an inch long.
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1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. viii. 113 I've had the news-bell ringing in my left ear quite bad enough for a murder.
news boat n. (a) a boat which puts out to passing vessels to receive and communicate news (now historical); (b) a boat carrying journalists, camera crew, etc., in pursuit of a news story.
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society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > news brought by ship > boat which receives or communicates news
news boat1830
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > boat communicating news
news boat1830
1830 Boston Transcript 1 Sept. 2/2 The news-boat, T. H. Smith, belonging to the Associated Morning Papers, boarded the packet ship Caledonia,..25 miles outside Sandy Hook, and before she was boarded by any other news-boat.
1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 347 Steamers bound West..will be boarded by the News-boat, and their advices telegraphed to all parts of America.
1990 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 29 Aug. 18 Camera crew members in a news boat following close behind said Mulroney appeared to be responsible for the hook that caught Bush's ear.
1998 Washington Post (Nexis) 11 Feb. h1 Briefly in the 1820s, several New York City papers cooperated to share the cost of a news boat.
newsbreak n. originally U.S. a newsworthy item; spec. a story that has just broken, a newsflash.
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1936 M. Mitchell Let. 18 Nov. in Gone with the Wind Lett. (1986) 90 They all look to me for news-breaks on everything connected with my business.
1969 New Yorker 11 Oct. 43/1 We've just received a letter..enclosing three newsbreaks (those little items we print at the bottom of the page) for our consideration.
1987 Weekend Austral. 7 Feb. 11/1 She's been reading the newsbreaks for a couple of months now, but last Tuesday she and her halo of red curls debuted reading the news.
news bug n. U.S. and Caribbean colloquial = news bee n.
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1899 F. D. Bergen Animal & Plant Lore 40 If a beetle, commonly called the ‘news-bug’, fly through the house, the occupants of the house are going to hear news.
1952 in F. G. Cassidy & R. B. LePage Dict. Jamaican Eng. (1967) 319/2 St T, News bug [here, a wood-boring beetle], bring news:..it's good news if they fly away after you knock them down.
news butch n. U.S. colloquial = news butcher n.
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1891 Fort Worth (Texas) Gaz. 6 May 4/5 A News ‘Butch’ Who Was Unacquainted with the Run.
1905 Dial. Notes 3 88 News-butch, a vendor of newspapers and books on a railway train.
1914 T. Cobb Busting 'Em 240 John..was a news ‘butch’ on trains.
1989 S. Sucharitkul Moon Dance ii. xvi. 295 She could make them out... One of them was a dark-skinned boy with dirty brown hair..the news butch from the train.
news butcher n. U.S. colloquial a seller of newspapers, sweets, etc., on a train (cf. butcher n. 5).
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1873 Little Rock (Arkansas) Daily Republican 18 July Some few days ago a news butcher on the Cairo and Fulton railroad..decamped with his stock in trade.
1894 Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Chickasaw Nation) 1 Jan. 3/1 Ben R. Wheeler, an old time and popular news butcher on the Santa Fe..is in the city.
1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 294 He got a concession as news-butcher on the daily train.
1974 M. Hoyt Thirty Miles i. 2 The hours dragged, but were helped..by the visits of the ‘news butcher’, a uniformed man who came through with papers, magazines, books, candy, fruit and gum for sale.
news cinema n. now historical a cinema which shows a succession of short films, cartoons, and newsreels.
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1932 N.Y. Herald Tribune 30 Apr. 11/2 With Rollin to the Embassy Theater, and saw for the first time the news-cinema, which fascinated me far beyond my expectations.
1965 M. Stewart Airs above Ground i. 16 There was an hour to Angy's train and we wanted somewhere to sit, so we went to the news cinema.
news crawl n. chiefly U.S. an electronic news ticker.
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1972 Washington Post 8 Mar. b8/2 The primary winners were announced in a printed news-crawl superimposed over a spoof of old Westerns.
1990 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 7 June f1/2 KCBS Channel 2 ran a news ‘crawl’ across the action at the Detroit-Portland game.
news cycle n. Journalism (originally U.S.) a round of media coverage; the period from one broadcast or printing to the next.
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1922 Los Angeles Times 9 Dec. i. 6/2 As the news cycles come and go each one carries a fresh effort to protect the innocent investor from the ravening wolves.
1976 N.Y. Times 2 May ii. 27/6 Church got substantial wire service and radio news coverage on at least two news cycles.
2002 M. Robinson Mobocracy iii. 137 The shortening of the news cycle has given polling a new urgency.
newsdesk n. the department of a newspaper office or broadcasting organization responsible for collecting and reporting the news.
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society > communication > journalism > newspaper offices > [noun] > department or room in
newsroom1792
editing room1862
local room1877
edit room1917
newsdesk1943
1943 Public Opinion Q. 7 61 Releases prepared by other departments are sent to the OWI [sc. Office of War Information] news desk which..clears them..and issues them.
1973 Times 21 Sept. 5/3 He asked to be put through to the news desk.
2000 Press Gaz. 14 Jan. 4/4 Many insiders at the newsdesks of regional ITV companies feel that the shortening of news programmes in the regions means that there is less opportunity for quality journalism.
news-dick n. a newspaper reporter.Apparently an isolated use.
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a1953 D. Thomas Quite Early One Morning (1954) 80 Two typewriter Thomas the ace news-dick.
newsflash n. originally U.S. a single item of important news broadcast separately from a news bulletin, often as an interruption to the scheduled programme.
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society > communication > broadcasting > a broadcast programme or item > [noun] > types of
news bulletin1857
news summary1875
police message1886
newsflash1904
headline1908
play-by-play1909
feature1913
spot ad1916
magazine1921
news1923
time signal1923
outside broadcast1924
radiocast1924
amateur hour1925
bulletin1925
serial1926
commentary1927
rebroadcast1927
school broadcast1927
feature programme1928
trailer1928
hour1930
schools broadcast1930
show1930
spot advertisement1930
spot announcement1930
sustaining1931
flash1934
newscast1934
commercial1935
clambake1937
remote1937
repeat1937
snap1937
soap opera1939
sportcast1939
spot commercial1939
daytimer1940
magazine programme1941
season1942
soap1943
soaper1946
parade1947
public service announcement1948
simulcasting1949
breakfast-time television1952
call-in1952
talkathon1952
game show1953
kidvid1955
roundup1958
telenovela1961
opt-out1962
miniseries1963
simulcast1964
soapie1964
party political1966
novela1968
phone-in1968
sudser1968
schools programme1971
talk-in1971
God slot1972
roadshow1973
trail1973
drama-doc1977
informercial1980
infotainment1980
infomercial1981
kideo1983
talk-back1984
indie1988
omnibus1988
teleserye2000
kidult-
1904 Post Express (Rochester, N.Y.) 12 Sept. 3 News Flashes from All Over.
1938 Manch. Guardian Weekly 21 Oct. Suppl. i/3 There was little hope that..a..news flash would break in..but her voice all at once receded. ‘Flash!’ a masculine announcer put in.
1988 R. Raynor Los Angeles without Map (1989) 6 One night the programme was interrupted by a newsflash.
news fly n. U.S. colloquial = news bee n.
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1935 H. M. Hyatt Folk-lore Adams County, Illinois 60 When one of those ‘news flies’..comes and buzzes around you, you are going to hear some good news.
newsgatherer n. a person who gathers news; (now) esp. one who researches news items or stories for publication or broadcast.
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society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > one who gathers news
newsgatherer1712
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 439. ¶2 They have News-Gatherers and Intelligencers distributed into their several..Quarters.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 187 By far the best news-gatherer of the country side.
1926 Time Mag. 12 July 22 This word [sc. pressmen]..was superseded by newsgatherers.
1971 Guardian 20 Dec. 11/1 The Guardian's specialist correspondents are not only newsgatherers but also distinguished commentators.
newsgathering n. †(a) an expedition or visit made for the purpose of gathering news (obsolete); (b) the occupation or work of a newsgatherer.
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1815 F. Burney Jrnls. & Lett. (1980) VIII. 454 Madame de Maurville engaged me to walk about with her, a News-gathering.
1856 G. D. Brewerton War in Kansas 279 From this time forth our news-gathering work commenced in earnest.
1918 W. G. Bleyer Profession of Journalism 114 The Associated Press is the child of the first effort at cooperative news-gathering ever made.
1993 Guardian 14 July i. 6/3 Too few top managers of newsgathering have been on the road recently.
newsgirl n. (a) a girl who sells or delivers newspapers; (b) a female news reporter or journalist; (c) a female newsreader.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets
bookmonger1275
stationer1311
bookseller?c1475
bibliopolist1541
book merchant1653
newsboy1728
book hawker1737
bibliopole1775
newsman1775
news-vender1796
newsagent1811
news-vendor1823
newspaper vendor1830
newspaper seller1837
newspaper boy1843
newsgirl1859
newsie1875
paperboy1876
1859 C. MacKay Life & Liberty Amer. 21 The newsboys and newsgirls..are to be met with at every corner.
1937 B. Board Newsgirl in Palestine 5 This book is a record of things that I have seen and heard as a newsgirl in the Holy Land.
1990 Toronto Star (Nexis) 8 Sept. s5 Chris and his pal even get interviewed by a barmy TV newsgirl.
2001 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 16 Dec. 14 (headline) Newsgirls told to do their own makeup. Staff hit out at ITV's latest money-saver.
newshawk n. colloquial (originally U.S.) a newspaper reporter.
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society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > reporter
newshound1699
writer1717
reporter1776
scribe1822
penciller1886
tripe-hound1923
newshawk1928
pencil1976
1928 Time 27 Feb. 22/1 Newshawks would then fly to the home of Mlle. Roseray.
1940 Illustr. London News 196 544/1 News-hawks reading the tape-machines in New York and California.
1986 Fortune 26 May 100/1 The capital's newshawks have plainly scented a nifty scandal.
news hawker n. now chiefly U.S. a person who sells newspapers in the street.
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1791 T. Holcroft School for Arrogance Prol. p. v (stage direct.) Spoken by Mr. Bernard, in the character of a News-hawker.
1860 Cornhill Mag. July 109 Two other ragged little losels—one a news-hawker, it would appear by the post-horn in his girdle.
2000 Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 16 Jan. The news hawkers are sure to be drowned out by other Glaswegians..gunning for your attention.
news hole n. the area of a newspaper or magazine that is available for news stories, after deduction of the area taken by adverts, pictures, etc.; (hence) the amount of airtime available in a news programme, channel, etc., for news broadcasting.
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1957 R. D. Casey & T. H. Copeland in Journalism Q. Spring (heading) Current ‘News Hole’ policies of daily newspapers: a survey.
1977 J. Monaco How to read Film App. i. 419 In a successful newspaper, the newshole may be as small as 20 percent.
2001 Brill's Content Apr. 122/2 Many CNN staffers also object to the new format's smaller ‘news hole’; there are simply fewer broadcast minutes available throughout the day for the packaged reports producers and correspondents send in from the field.
newshound n. †(a) a person searching for news (obsolete); (b) colloquial (originally U.S.) a newspaper reporter.
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society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > reporter
newshound1699
writer1717
reporter1776
scribe1822
penciller1886
tripe-hound1923
newshawk1928
pencil1976
1699 E. Ward London Spy I. xii. 11 At last comes in an old News-Hound, who in hunting after Intelligence, was at a great Loss, and enquir'd of the rest, if any stragling News had come that way.
1918 Hatchet 7 Apr. 48/2 ‘Got what all figured out,’ queried the news hound eagerly.
1997 G. Williams Diamond Geezers xxvii. 168 Once the newshounds got bored with the story he'd be transferred to some open prison.
newsmaker n. chiefly North American (a) a person who writes for a newspaper, a journalist; (b) a newsworthy person or event.
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society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun]
gazetteer1611
newsmaker1648
diurnalist1649
diurnaller1661
gazette-writera1678
journalist1693
journalier1714
couranteer1733
magazine-writer1787
diarian1800
hack1803
pressman1818
print journalist1965
journo1967
newsperson1973
Bigfoot1980
1648 Royall Diurnall 7–14 Aug. sig. C4 The newes-maker of England the states Diurnall man who saith..that all is silent, and there is no actions, betwixt Fairfax his Saints and King Charles his servants.
1781 T. Holcroft Duplicity i. i. 5 These newsmakers are a very pleasant, ingenious kind of people.
1851 Harper's Mag. Dec. 133/2 Yet again, these graceful columns of French news~makers, lend us an episode—of quite another sort of devotion.
1967 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 11 Mar. 134 Such pictures as these made in the frontline of combat reveal field photojournalism itself as one of the real newsmakers of the year.
1983 C. Lynch You can't print That! in J. McLeod Oxf. Bk. Canad. Polit. Anecd. (1988) 220 I had written saying her ambition to be a press photographer was impractical for a newsmaker of her impact.
1995 Maclean's 24 Apr. 45 Front Page Challenge's mystery guests have included such newsmakers as Gordie Howe, Indira Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
news management n. originally U.S. Politics manipulation of the media, esp. by press agents or publicists, to ensure favourable news coverage.
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1958 Washington Post 12 May a2/4 He contended the move would lead to ‘convenient news management and a cover up of all manner of things.’
1993 Daily Tel. 13 Jan. 3/2 It is less clear whether the Princess chose or was persuaded..to move from passive acquiescence in sympathetic media coverage to a strategy bordering on active news management of coverage of her marital collapse.
news manager n. (a) originally and chiefly U.S., a person in charge of the presentation or compilation of news, esp. one employed by a newspaper, television station, etc., to manage its news room; (b) originally U.S. Politics, a person employed to manipulate the media to ensure favourable news coverage of his or her clients; a spin doctor.
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1884 Bay State Monthly Oct. 27/1 Justin Andrews..subsequently became one of the news-managers of the [Boston] Herald.
1944 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 18 195 Hayden Weller is News Manager of New York Bureau of Public Information.
1964 Washington Post 1 Mar. e7/1 White House news managers pulled out all the stops to get United States newspapers to act as an adjunct of United States foreign policy during President Johnson's recent California trip.
1984 Guardian 29 Oct. 9/2 The whiff of news managers at work, rather than an urge to hear about British Telecom's zillion-pound share sale from the horse's mouth, took me to B.T.'s big press conference.
2000 Toronto Star (Electronic ed.) 30 May He, like other CBC news managers across the country, had been kept in the dark.
news peg n. a news story that forms the basis of an editorial, interview, cartoon, etc.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > matter of or for journals > [noun] > other matter in journals
open letter1798
yell1827
court circular1841
magazine story1841
personal1860
pictorial1906
full spread1913
sidebar1937
lede1951
news peg1960
1960 20th Cent. Apr. 357 These jousts don't seem to need a news peg.
1992 N.Y. Times Mag. 22 Mar. 45/3 We had a memo last year saying news pegs were no longer important for stories.
newsperson n. originally and chiefly U.S. a person employed in the news media, a journalist.
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society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun]
gazetteer1611
newsmaker1648
diurnalist1649
diurnaller1661
gazette-writera1678
journalist1693
journalier1714
couranteer1733
magazine-writer1787
diarian1800
hack1803
pressman1818
print journalist1965
journo1967
newsperson1973
Bigfoot1980
society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > news-writer
newsmonger1592
newsman1596
news writer1650
Mercurist1652
postman1695
news-dealer1788
newspaper writer?1789
newspaperman1806
news scribe1823
newspaperwoman1881
newsperson1973
newsie1975
1973 M. Ivins in Houston Journalism Rev. Jan. 2/4 I know, I know, the reason why newspeople bitch so much is because they've got a lot to bitch about.
1983 P. Fiddick in Listener 14 July 31/2 Newspersons at the BBC were seen mingling in public with their current affairs department fellows.
2000 Herald (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 5 June Calling journalism something of a sacred calling, Pope John Paul II yesterday urged the world's newspeople to use the power of their pens, cameras and websites for the good of mankind.
news printing n. rare = newsprint n.
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1937 Tablet 2 Oct. 436/2 The growth of large newspaper combines makes competition increasingly difficult, because the large proprietors are in fact deeply interested in the allied industries like the manufacture of news printing.
newsreading n. the action of reading out the news on radio or television.
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society > communication > reading > [noun] > reading specific type of material
novel reading1782
newsreading1951
society > communication > broadcasting > [noun] > action of specific type of broadcaster
commentating1939
presentation1941
newsreading1951
1951 in M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 8/3 The Editors of Time hope to give..a clearer picture of the world of news-gathering, news-writing, and news-reading.
2000 S. Afr. Times UK 12 July 11/3 Dutton quit her newsreading job..earlier this year to present CNN's Hot Spots.
news release n. chiefly North American = press release n. at press n.1 Compounds 2b.
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society > communication > journalism > supply of news or newspapers > [noun] > release
release1907
news release1918
press release1921
press handout1932
1918 N.Y. Times 2 June 10/1 With regard to the news releases of the committee, it must be borne in mind that no news release originates in this office.
1960 Analog Sci. Fact & Fiction Dec. 48/2 Now they have a chance to get their news releases and faked pix out in quantity.
1998 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 6 Mar. b5/2 ‘The longer-term project focuses on the technology needed,’..the companies said in a joint news release.
newsroom n. †(a) a reading room specially set apart for newspapers (obsolete); (b) an office in a newspaper or a broadcasting station where news is processed.
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society > communication > journalism > newspaper offices > [noun] > department or room in
newsroom1792
editing room1862
local room1877
edit room1917
newsdesk1943
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > reading room
reading room1759
newsroom1792
1792 Country Spectator 6 Nov. in T. Mozley Reminisc. (1885) I. xiii. 69 In estimating the benefits, which every Town derives from its News-Room, we must consider how far it contributes, by reducing the price of News, to make the inhabitants better acquainted with the Papers.
1808 J. E. Caldwell Tour through Part of Virginia 9 A visitor to Martinsburg, Virginia, noted..‘the advantage of an excellent news~room, where the most respectable papers on the continent are taken’.
1862 N.Y. Times 18 Sept. 3/5 The usual daily season of War rumors set in to the Street..unsupported by any reliable information to the Press or the news rooms.
1959 Times 5 May 13/5 The news-room scoop is almost a thing of the past.
1984 Listener 21 June 6/2 Filming for a week in the newsroom of the Daily Star, it was a style we quickly got used to.
news service n. an organization which collects and supplies news items, usually to subscribers; (also) the facility provided by such an organization.
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society > communication > journalism > supply of news or newspapers > [noun] > news agency
press agency1859
news service1870
news agency1873
newswire1941
wire service1941
1870 Putnam's Mag. July 27/1 The regular morning journals forming the Associated Press, pay about fourteen thousand dollars each, for the news-service of this office.
1935 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Jan. 1/3 The whole complex work of newspaper-making—..creating news-services and literary staffs.
1996 Internet World May 3 Custom news services can save you time and effort by tracking topics and delivering information to your desktop.
news sheet n. a printed sheet containing news; a simple form of newspaper; a newsletter.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun]
intelligencer1598
courant1621
coranto1624
paper1642
mercury1643
newsletter1665
newspaper1667
slip1688
raga1734
news1738
gazetteer1742
sheet1754
news sheet1841
spread1848
linen-draper1857
newsprint1897
blat1932
linen1955
mimeo newspaper1973
1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 81 Literature in all its branches, from philosophical treatises to magazines and news-sheets.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 185/2 For some time the projector, imitating the news-sheets in form, thought it prudent to give, in each number, news in addition to the essay.
1989 Sunday Correspondent 17 Sept. 46/2 The Natural Health Centre offers cranial osteopathy and a free news sheet listing astrology workshops, retreats, evenings of rebirthing and psychodrama.
newsstand n. a stand or stall for the sale of newspapers.
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society > communication > journalism > supply of news or newspapers > [noun] > news-stand
newsstand1867
society > trade and finance > trading place > stall or booth > [noun] > for sale of other specific goods
bookstand1743
bookstall1753
newsstand1867
paper kiosk1935
1867 H. Greeley Success in Business 26 That man..bought, on credit..a news-stand, where periodicals were sold.
1932 E. Wilson Devil take Hindmost iii. 19 Communist publications, sold openly on news-stands.
1987 C. Simmons Belles Lettres Papers xiii. 172 By the time the issue is on the newsstands the whole world will know we fooled some pretty smart people.
news station n. a television or radio news broadcasting station.
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1947 Washington Post 16 Mar. iii. 8/6 Surrounded by ‘news stations’, ‘music stations’, and ‘community stations’, WEAM plans to offer entertainment chiefly.
1981 Listener 26 Feb. 290/3 Radio London..cannot compete with LBC as a news station offering a ‘rolling’ format.
2001 People (Electronic ed.) 16 Sept. In China Town's local William Hill's every TV screen was tuned in to a news station.
news theatre n. now historical = news cinema n.
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1933 J. B. Priestley Wonder Hero iii. 95 He paid his shilling and entered one of the little News Theatres.
1974 E. Lemarchand Buried in Past ix. 152 Enquiries at steak houses and news theatres in the Tottenham Court Road area.
news ticker n. (a) a telegraphic machine which transmits breaking news to be printed out on a paper tape; (b) originally and chiefly Television the on-screen presentation of the latest news as text, typically scrolling along a narrow band crossing the bottom of the screen; (also) news presented in this format.
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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > [noun] > automatic printer of telegraphed news
news ticker1887
society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > telegraph > [noun] > types of > recording telegraphs
telegraph register1845
Morse1867
recorder1867
nicker1871
ink-writer1876
inker1882
ticker1883
news ticker1887
tape-machine1891
synchronograph1897
tape-ticker1904
undulator1910
reperforator1913
1887 Dunkirk (N.Y.) Observer-Jrnl. 14 Nov. 1/7 He considered it a scheme to bull Hocking Valley stock which, on the strength of the news ticker annoncement [sic] had gone up..from 24 to 28.
1902 Munsey's Mag. Jan. 542/2 Stock and general news tickers..reporting bad news.
1933 E. Balmer & P. Wylie When Worlds Collide v. 46 The news-ticker carried, as additional information, only the effect of the announcement on the markets in Europe.
1986 E. E. Scharff Worldly Power xi. 192 The news ticker not only made a tidy profit, it was also the key to Dow Jones' hammerlock on breaking financial news.
2004 Boys Toys July 50/1 If your phone isn't up to all this fancy news ticker and video stuff, fear not.
news-vender n. = news-vendor n.
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1796 G. M. Woodward Eccentric Excursions vi. 68 A variety of News Venders attend daily in order to dispose of their politics, and chronicles of events, to the surrounding and anxious Citizens.
1811 Examiner 17 Mar. 167/2 The Paper is not sent from the Office, but is served by the Newsvenders.
1834 Gentleman's Mag. 104 101 A public meeting of the Newsvenders of the metropolis.
1873 F. Hudson Journalism U.S. p. xxxiii Many of the news-venders of the present time in New York and other cities are women and girls.
1920 R. H. Davis Lost Road (new ed.) 165 At Regent Street he stopped to buy an evening paper from the aged news-vender at the corner.
1937 A. M. Lee Daily Newspaper in Amer. ix. 258 News-carriers, news-venders, and the ‘quickest conveyances’ for subscribers at a distance..remain the chief concerns of the circulation manager.
news-vendor n. a newspaper seller.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets
bookmonger1275
stationer1311
bookseller?c1475
bibliopolist1541
book merchant1653
newsboy1728
book hawker1737
bibliopole1775
newsman1775
news-vender1796
newsagent1811
news-vendor1823
newspaper vendor1830
newspaper seller1837
newspaper boy1843
newsgirl1859
newsie1875
paperboy1876
1823 Kent's Original London Dir. (ed. 91) 275 Ray John, news vendor, 2, Creed-lane, Ludgate-street.
1860 W. Collins Woman in White (new ed.) III. 4 The ground floor..is occupied by a small newsvendor's shop.
1904 Spectator 4 June 897/2 (advt.) No subscriber to whom a newsvendor cannot make direct delivery of The Times is under any obligation to defray the cost of inland postage.
1991 B. Okri Famished Road (1992) ii. iv. 114 News-vendors roused the dawn with their horns, announcing to the awakening world the scandals of the latest political violence.
2010 R. M. Feldman & C. Valdez-Flores Appl. Probability & Stochastic Processes (ed. 2) x. 286 A news vendor buys newspapers at the start of every day to sell on the street corner.
newsweekly n. originally and chiefly U.S. a newspaper or news magazine which is published weekly.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > weekly
weekly1825
newsweekly1856
1856 Ladies' Repository Aug. 484/1 The political and news weeklies have widest circulations.
1946 Tide 19 July 38/2 Magazine Weekly, the four-page magazine industry newsweekly, is currently campaigning for a Pulitzer Prize for magazines.
1992 Utne Reader July 97/2 The Village Voice: This oldest of the alternative newsweeklies continues to be required reading for those who want to stay on top of the comings and goings of American culture.
newswork n. the kind of composition or printing traditionally employed in newspapers.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > matter of or for journals > [noun]
newswork1820
society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > specific types of print
proclamation-print1592
Geneva print1606
fine print1761
black letter1811
newswork1820
hard dot1913
miniprint1975
1820 Rep. Comm. Working on Newspapers in E. Howe London Compositor (1947) xv. 378 The Committee commenced their labours by tracing the Regulations for News Work back to a certain period.
1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 217 Illustrated work differs from ordinary newswork in one important particular.
1971 Library 26 302 If we can trust the ‘oral testimony’ reported in 1820, long galleys were in use in newswork as early as 1770.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
newsv.
/njuːz/, U.S. /n(j)uz/, Scottish English /njuz/ Now chiefly Scottish.† 1. transitive. To tell or spread as news. Obsolete.
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society > communication > information > news or tidings > bring (news) [verb (transitive)] > tell or spread as news
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1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico ix. 45 This being newsed about the Town, many afterwards shunned the occasion of meeting with the Prince.
1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. (at cited word) It was newsed about.
1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia 149 It was newsed at market yesterday.
2. intransitive. To exchange or tell news; to gossip.
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1715 W. Vickers Let. 25 June in M. M. Verney Verney Lett. Eighteenth Cent. (1930) I. xvii. 337 All people are newsing of the Events of these Impeachments.
1829 J. Hay Poems 42 Two shepherd swains sat newsing on the green.
1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xxxiii. 233 Topics to keep himself and his cronies ‘newsin’ for several days.
1933 D. A. Mackenzie Stroopie Well 4 When grannie bakes her oaten cakes, I aye drop in to news a whiley.
1980 D. K. Cameron Willie Gavin viii. 70 Even the non-farming visitor could find himself enlisted (there was always time to news, the crofter man promised him..).
2001 Aberdeen Evening Express (Nexis) 30 June 14 Moira loved to be newsing and blethering with all the old folk.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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