CHAPTER 3
The Art of Sourcing News Sources
Tarjeet Sabharwal
CHAPTER INSIGHTS
News does not develop in a vacuum. It grows out of its era and its milieu. Many scholars have defined news in different ways and yet there is no uniformly accepted single definition of news.
News can be defined as the product of actions and words of others. Harold Evans simply defines ‘News is people.’ News is not easily definable, there are as many definitions as there are media experts and journalists to define them. However, most would agree that ‘News is the timely and factual report of a happening of either interest or importance or both to a considerable large audience.’ Another definition says, ‘News refers to the timely and factual account of events, issues ...
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