news

Roget-categorie 532

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.9. Modes of communication
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#532. News

zelfstandig naamwoord

news — information etc. 527 — piece of news [Fr.], budget of news, budget of information — intelligence, tidings.
word, advice, aviso [Sp.], message — dispatch, despatch — telegram, cable, marconigram^†, wire, communication, errand, embassy.
report, rumor, hearsay, on dit [Fr.], flying rumor, news stirring, cry, buzz, bruit, fame — talk, oui dire [Fr.], scandal, eavesdropping — town tattle, table talk — tittle tattle — canard, topic of the day, idea afloat.
bulletin, fresh news, stirring news — glad tidings — flash, news just in — on-the-spot coverage — live coverage.
old story, old news, stale news, stale story — chestnut [Slang].
narrator etc. (describe) 594 — newsmonger, scandalmonger — talebearer, telltale, gossip, tattler.
[study of news reporting] journalism.
[methods of conveying news] media, news media, the press, the information industry — newspaper, magazine, tract, journal, gazette, publication etc. 531 — radio, television, ticker (electronic information transmission). [organizations producing news reports] [methods of conveying news] United Press International, UPI — Associated Press, AP — The Dow Jones News Service, DJ — The New York Times News Service, NYT — Reuters [Brit.] — TASS [Rus.] — The Nikkei [Jap.].
[person reporting news as a profession] newscaster, newsman, newswoman, reporter, journalist, correspondent, foreign correspondent, special correspondent, war correspondent, news team, news department — anchorman, anchorwoman^† — sportscaster — weatherman.
[officials providing news for an organization] press secretary, public relations department, public relations man.

werkwoord

transpire etc. (be disclosed) 529 — rumor etc. (publish) 531.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

many-tongued — rumored — publicly rumored, currently rumored, currently reported — rife, current, floating, afloat, going about, in circulation, in every one's mouth, all over the town.
in progress — live — on the spot — in person.

bijwoord

as the story goes, as the story runs — as they say, it is said — by telegraph, by wireless.

uitdrukking

airy tongues that syllable men's names" [Milton]; what's up —? what's the latest —? what's new —? what's the latest poop.
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