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• There is no single acceptable definition of news because the elements that constitute news are constantly changing, and so are the women and men who select it for the print and broadcast. The dramatic social, economic, political and technologies changes sweeping the world have a profound impact in saying it an news. What is news? Whatever new happens forms news. Whenever something unusual, unparallel, extra-ordinary, exceptional event, incident, happening or development takes place, the formation of news begins. “Everything that happens” or “anything you didn’t know yesterday” makes news. It is what people “talk about” or what “readers want to know.” it is what a reporter “finds satisfaction in writing” or “what a well trained editor decides to put in his paper” News is not static. It has no rigid rules or framework. One of the great city editors of all time, Stanley Walker of the New York Herald Tribune, said “news is more of unpredictable than the winds. Sometimes it is the repetition with new characters of tales as old as pyramids, and again, it may be almost outside the common experiences.” Joseph Pultizer, 19th century publisher of New york World, had his own definition, he instructed his editors and reporters to look for stories that were, “original, distinctive, romantic, thrilling, unique, curious, humours, odd and apt-to-be talked about.”
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