A single broadcast or published report of news about a particular topic.
a brief news item about a riot
Example sentencesExamples
- A local radio news item stated that the first stage in the development of the woodland on the property will go out to tender in a number of weeks.
- The more prominent news item has been the country's fall from grace, dropping to 3rd place from its cozy top standing.
- It was a big news item in the Edinburgh press that Scott had finally owned up.
- As the riots which followed showed, this was more than just a minor news item.
- The web feed is widely used within the news industry to alert news agencies and customers of timely relevant news items.
- Observations such as the one described in this news item are convincing.
- The news item made some of us here slightly nostalgic for the good old days.
- You must have had a serious depletion of news items to have made this your front page story.
- We've had a couple of news items in the past months about this new Japanese horror movie.
- This simple news item has been wilfully exploded into a stream of righteous wrath.