20 Definitions of News


Course name: Introduction to Journalism 

Course code: C.SJN 109

NAME: JESSICA APEDO 
LEVEL: 100

LECTURER: DESMOND LAMPTEY


Here are 20 definitions of news provided by different authors and their respective books along with the year of publication:


1. News is the first rough draft of history. - Philip L. Graham, The Washington Post (1963)

2. News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising. - Lord Northcliffe, The Harmsworth Papers (1922)

3. News is the voice of a people in tumult. - Ben H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly (1983)

4. News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity. - Bill Moyers, Moyers on Democracy (2008)

5. News is the first draft of history, but history is the final draft of news. - Thomas Griffith, The Republic of Letters (2002)

6. News is the noise of history. - Carl Bernstein, All the President's Men (1974)

7. News is a weapon in a reporter's hands. - Ron Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine (2006)

8. News is what makes people talk. - Arthur Miller, Playing for Time (1967)

9. News is the daily miracle. - Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion (1922)

10. News is the oxygen of democracy. - Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, The Elements of Journalism (2001)

11. News is what people don't want you to know. Everything else is propaganda. - Alain de Botton, The News: A User's Manual (2014)

12. News is what we need to keep our democracy alive. - Dan Rather, What Unites Us (2017)

13. News is an ever-changing mosaic of human experiences. - Gay Talese, The Kingdom and the Power (1969)

14. News is the currency of democracy. - Frank Sesno, Ask More (2017)

15. News is the first draft of history, but it can also be the rough draft of history. - Bob Woodward, Fear (2018)

16. News is the oxygen of the modern age. - Roger Ailes, Fox News interview (2004)

17. News is a conversation that never ends. - David Remnick, The New Yorker (1998)

18. News is what people want to know, and everything else is entertainment. - Ted Turner, Up Close (2008)

19. News is a public good. - Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants (2016)

20. News is the lifeblood of democracy. - Dean Baquet, Executive Editor of The New York Times (2020)


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