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Thoughts on a Changing Definition of News
At it’s most basic, we can agree that “news” is defined as what’s important; it is both timely and relevant.
David Zeeck of the Poynter Institute notes that he used to conflate newspapers and news, but that now he realizes that
“News is the ultimate manifestation of a human desire to know what’s going on, to make [...]
This is for all the non-believers.
It’s national newspaper week! I was checking out the feed of relevant editorials on google news and ran across this gem of an article from the Mount Airy News in NC: The Internet Will Never Match What a Newspaper Offers.
Here are some of my favorite parts:
Yet perhaps the most important factor that will ensure newspapers’ [...]