What is news (cont.)

In speaking with other students in the newswriting class, it seemed as though there were to schools of thought on what news is. First, Katie and Chris believed that news is defined by what is actually newsworthy. If something is not important to the masses, it is not news. Chris put it best by saying that “a dog biting a man is not news, but a man biting a dog is.” This meaning that only the exciting and important can be deemed news. This was very different than how I saw the subject. I fell into the second way of thinking of news, shared by Ashley and myself, which is that anything can be news depending on the person. Something that is may be news to one person, may not affect many other people, and vice versa. This shows that news is more of an amorphous, undefinable and ever-changing thing.

What is news?

News is anything and everything in the world that affects us as human beings on a day-to-day basis. From the monumental to the minuscule, anything can be considered news from someone's own unique perspective. Something that may not be considered important or pertinent to one person can change the life of another. Being that news can be any type of information, it can also come from many different types of sources, including print, online, television or even word of mouth. News encompasses all things that can effect the world around us as individuals and as a population as a whole.