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News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different media: word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, or through the testimony of observers and witnesses to events. News is sometimes called "hard news" to differentiate it from soft media.
News style, journalistic style, or news-writing style is the prose style used for news reporting in media, such as newspapers, radio and television.. News writing attempts to answer all the basic questions about any particular event—who, what, when, where, and why (the Five Ws) and also often how—at the opening of the article.
A story is a single article, news item or feature, usually concerning a single event, issue, theme, or profile of a person. Correspondents report news occurring in the main, locally, from their own country, or from foreign cities where they are stationed. Most reporters file information or write their stories electronically from remote locations.
The guidelines for verifiability, notability and reliable sources, followed to the letter, would mean that any news event which was independently reported by multiple news reporting services on any given day could have a Wikipedia article, even if it were the most trivial coverage or sensationalistic story. Notability has no time value, so any ...
hNews is a microformat for news content developed by the Associated Press and the Media Standards Trust. hNews extends hAtom, introducing a number of fields that more completely describe a journalistic work. hNews also introduces rel-principles (a format that describes the journalistic principles upheld by the journalist or news organization that has published the news item). hNews will be one ...
Types of news articles include: Breaking news, a quick, tentative update about an event that is happening right now; News reports, e.g., a local news report about plans for a new school, or a world news report about a natural disaster; Feature story, longer, more creatively written articles that include both human-interest stories and news features